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Coordination overhead
the cost of managing handoffs, maintaining shared context, resolving conflicts, and synchronizing agents that arises from every collaboration pattern and scales super-linearly with the number of participants
Why This Is a Definition
This definition establishes the precise semantic boundary of 'Coordination overhead' by identifying what it is (cost of managing various aspects of agent interaction), what it arises from (every collaboration pattern), and how it behaves (scales super-linearly). It distinguishes this from other costs and provides the specific operational characteristics that define this term in the curriculum.