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title: '**lead agent**'
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  In this channel's material, a **lead agent** is the agent in a multi-agent
  workflow that **collects all findings** from the other agents and turns them
  into a report of what needs to be done
  [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426].
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# \*\*lead agent\*\*

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Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

In this channel's material, a **lead agent** is the agent in a multi-agent workflow that **collects all findings** from the other agents and turns them into a report of what needs to be done [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426].

In this channel's material, a **lead agent** is the coordinating agent in a multi-agent workflow: it collects the findings produced by other agents and turns them into a consolidated report of what needs to be done [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426].The clearest example is Ryan Nystrom's **swarm review** skill, a multi-agent verification pass that runs before he ever reviews code himself. The workflow divides the change set into domains (for example frontend and backend), delegates each domain to reviewer roles — a *correctness reviewer* hunting for errors and a *code maintenance reviewer* looking for reuse, existing patterns, and things that break at scale — and runs every pass on two models (GPT and Opus). At the end of the pipeline, the **lead agent collects all findings** from every reviewer pass and writes them up as a report of required fixes [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426].The swarm iterates until it's good: the agent repeats the review cycle until all findings are resolved [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426].- A **lead agent** is the coordinator: it gathers outputs from specialized reviewer agents and produces the final report of what needs to be done.- In the **swarm review** skill, the lead agent sits at the end of a pipeline of domain-split, role-based, multi-model reviewer passes.- Its report feeds an **iterate until it's good** loop that repeats until the findings are resolved.