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Agent Context Budget Coordinator

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A non-reasoning coordinator agent that estimates each subtask's token needs, assigns working-memory budgets to worker agents, monitors their utilization, and reallocates capacity between them.

Responsibility. Manages working-memory budgets across the worker agents of a multi-agent task.

Also known as: Coordinator-based orchestration, Context allocation coordinator

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Relationships

constrains control

Worker Agent abstract Ch5.9

monitors assurance

Worker Agent abstract Ch5.9

Design guidance

SHOULD mitigate the coordinator becoming an overloaded bottleneck or single point of failure.

Classification

Patterns: Coordinator-based context orchestrationDynamic budget reallocation between agents
Quality attributes: Performance efficiency (ISO/IEC 25010)
Risks mitigated: Tragedy of the commons over shared context capacity

Sources

Ch5.9: T. Nguyen, "Working Memory," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 5.9. ISBN: 9798244538229.