"Design multi-agent systems around independent specialist agents In a live healthcare demo, Pande shows a system where four agents — scheduling, insurance, diagnostics, and pharmacy — collaborate to route a patient to the right provider. The critical design insight is that three of the four agents 'are actually third party agents' not belonging to the hospital, and they 'could not talk to each other' until given shared identity and access. This means the value of a multi-agent system comes precisely from combining independently specialized agents across organizational boundaries, not from one vendor's tightly integrated stack — a principle that applies to any enterprise designing AI workflows. Source: Vjoy Pande, The Cognitive Revolution, AI Agents and the Internet of Cognition with Vjoy Pande of Outshift by Cisco"