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Multi-Agent LLM Orchestration Achieves Deterministic, High-Quality Decision Support for Incident Response

Artificial Intelligence 2026-01-08 v2 Software Engineering

Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) promise to accelerate incident response in production systems, yet single-agent approaches generate vague, unusable recommendations. We present MyAntFarm.ai, a reproducible containerized framework demonstrating that multi-agent orchestration fundamentally transforms LLM-based incident response quality. Through 348 controlled trials comparing single-agent copilot versus multi-agent systems on identical incident scenarios, we find that multi-agent orchestration achieves 100% actionable recommendation rate versus 1.7% for single-agent approaches, an 80 times improvement in action specificity and 140 times improvement in solution correctness. Critically, multi-agent systems exhibit zero quality variance across all trials, enabling production SLA commitments impossible with inconsistent single-agent outputs. Both architectures achieve similar comprehension latency (approx.40s), establishing that the architectural value lies in deterministic quality, not speed. We introduce Decision Quality (DQ), a novel metric capturing validity, specificity, and correctness properties essential for operational deployment that existing LLM metrics do not address. These findings reframe multi-agent orchestration from a performance optimization to a production-readiness requirement for LLM-based incident response. All code, Docker configurations, and trial data are publicly available for reproduction.

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@article{arxiv.2511.15755,
  title  = {Multi-Agent LLM Orchestration Achieves Deterministic, High-Quality Decision Support for Incident Response},
  author = {Philip Drammeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.15755},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 tables. v2: Expanded limitations, added threats to validity, clarified agent definition, added reproducibility notes, updated Phase 2 timeline with current models (GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Llama 3.3 70B). No changes to experimental results

R2 v1 2026-07-01T07:45:57.984Z