You give a very precise measure of redundancy in the skills. Can you give a bit more detail in how you decided you needed to audit them and how you went about it? Was it fully agent driven? Mostly human?
Since we are all building our version of this, what mistakes did you made until you arrived to a well-balanced solution? I really like that you know how much an issue is, because then you can start optimizing.
I posted in another threat about this: I am seeing a lot of people building their own little bespoke factories. They introduce endless quality gates until it slows development down, and then they add more agents to decide when to run certain actions, and on and on. The end result from what I've seen and personally participated in, is that it often winds up providing negative value in the software development lifecycle. It creates a whole lot of heat, but IMO is not helping the teams utilizing them to ship value any faster than they would with a more limited setup.
This is Microsoft scale, I'd be surprised if it made any difference these labs. It's more likely it's plain managerial mishandling of the infra in chasing new profit heights.
Did you do any ablation studies on what is actually useful vs what happens to just work because these systems can work around whatever people do?
I compare this to OpenAI's symphony prompt which, at a high level, does exactly the same thing outlined here except model selection and doesn't really have the need for roles or hospital metaphors.
One thing I've been experimenting with in my own agent orchestration system is an agent that hangs around and does post-merge acceptance testing after the work ships. Any plans to add a follow-up phase? Travel nurse?
I compare this to OpenAI's symphony prompt which, at a high level, does exactly the same thing outlined here except model selection and doesn't really have the need for roles or hospital metaphors.
One thing I've been experimenting with in my own agent orchestration system is an agent that hangs around and does post-merge acceptance testing after the work ships. Any plans to add a follow-up phase? Travel nurse?