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You are building a multi-agent research system using the Claude Agent SDK. A coordinator agent delegates to specialized subagents: one searches the web, one analyzes documents, one synthesizes findings, and one generates reports. The system researches topics and produces comprehensive, cited reports.
A user expands the research system beyond its original web-search agent by adding specialized data sources. A financial API agent returns structured JSON containing revenue, margins, and growth rates. A news-monitoring agent returns prose summaries of recent developments. A patent-analysis agent returns structured lists of technology areas. The synthesis agent combines these results into executive briefings. Currently, it converts everything into bullet points, causing financial comparisons to lose tabular clarity and news summaries to lose their narrative flow.
What change would most improve briefing quality?
Option C preserves the information structure that makes each source useful. Financial metrics share comparable fields and therefore benefit from rows, columns, aligned units, and reporting periods. News findings require connected prose to preserve chronology and causal relationships, while patent technology areas are naturally represented as categorized lists. Anthropic's output-consistency guidance recommends specifying the exact output format needed for the task rather than relying on an unspecified default. Anthropic's discussion of its multi-agent research system also recognizes specialized output stages for reports, structured data, and visualizations because specialist prompts can produce better results than generic coordinator processing. Option A destroys the comparative structure of numerical data. Option D can provide a useful provenance contract internally but does not determine how the executive briefing should present heterogeneous content. Option B risks creating a lowest-common-denominator representation that discards source-specific advantages. The synthesis contract should preserve normalized facts and provenance internally while directing the report generator to select presentation forms according to the content's semantic structure and the executive reader's needs.
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