Date: 2026-03-14 Author: Ravi Natarajan
Motivation
As multi-agent AI systems grow, orchestrators managing individual agents directly can become difficult to scale and reason about.
K9-AIF introduces a new architectural abstraction called Agent Squads.
Architecture
Router → Orchestrator → Squads → Agents
Squads act as coordinated groups of agents that execute together within a defined context.
New Components
- BaseSquad
- SquadLoader
- SquadContext
- DefaultSquadMonitor
Benefits
- cleaner orchestration boundaries
- modular multi-agent composition
- configuration-driven squad definitions
Next Steps
Future releases will extend squad capabilities for monitoring, parallel execution, and cross-squad orchestration.