Drill · lap 1 · 7/9 · MAS-101 · Cost this topology by hand

[akash-coded]

7 of 9 · MAS-101 · Cost this topology by hand

multi-agent · medium · predict · ~10 min · no AWS account

No code. A design review is proposing a delegation topology. Compute its H× — total tokens divided by what a single agent would spend — to two decimal places.

The model

delegation total = base_context                             # the orchestrator's own context
                 + orchestrator_turns × base_context        # its reasoning turns
                 + specialists × (handoff_context + result) # the handoffs
                 + base_context + specialists × result      # the MERGE call — carries every result

H× = total ÷ base_context

The proposal

Specialists	3
base_context	2 000 tokens
handoff_context (what crosses each handoff)	500
result (each specialist's output)	300
orchestrator_turns	3

Your answer

/drill MAS-101

```python
answer = 0.00   # H×, two decimal places
```

Above the code block, say in one sentence what the 3 specialists are buying for that multiple. If you cannot, that is the review's finding.

What this proves

That you can turn a whiteboard shape into a number a reviewer can argue with — and that you include the two terms the diagram hides: the orchestrator's own reasoning turns, and the merge call that carries every specialist's output.

---

Submit in this thread

Copy the block from the brief, edit it, and post it as a comment here. The bot replies within a couple of minutes with every check, the skill you demonstrated, and what to do next.

_{Brief in the repo: labs/drills/multi-agent/MAS-101 · next in the sequence: PROD-101 · how grading works · scoreboard}