Week 7 · Agents · about 3 minutes
What you will be able to do
Design Helix's agent swarm with a supervisor that plans and delegates to specialists.
The idea
A supervisor agent owns the plan: decompose the goal, pick workers, merge results.
Specialists do not invent policy. They run tools for the step they were given.
graph.add_node("supervisor", plan)
graph.add_node("sql", run_sql)
graph.add_edge("supervisor", "sql")If every agent plans, nobody owns the outcome.
Key takeaways
- One planner, many workers.
- Specialists run tools, not policy.
- Merge results at the supervisor.
Part of the Forward Deployed Engineer roadmap. New to the role? Start with what a Forward Deployed Engineer does.