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Expansion-Contraction

A graph-traversal pattern for compound AI systems that spawns short-lived specialist agents while walking a data graph outward from a query origin, then aggregates their findings inward into a single verdict.

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Writing the edges in Python takes the routing decision out of the LLM call

A dev.to postmortem of the central orchestrator agent argues for LangGraph's explicit edges, and the 60 percent latency win it cites only adds up once the manager's own turns come off the critical path.

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Hype gap+38
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