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title: Collaborating Agents and Agentic workflows
slug: collaborating-agents-and-agentic-workflows
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createdAt: 2025-06-29T22:23:49.121Z
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On Agenthost, you can now enable multiple agents working together. This allows powerful agentic workflows that can leverage as many agents as you want.&#x20;


# How to enable collaborative agents

To enable collaborative agents, you must be on the Growth plan or higher. You can view your plan by going to [settings](https://agenthost.ai/settings)

To enable collaboration with an Agent, both the target agent you want to collaborate with and the current agent but turn on "Work with other Agents".

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Once you've enabled agent collaboration on the agents you want collaborating, you can confirm the collaboration is working by simpy asking the agent what other agents they can communicate with.&#x20;


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# Providing collaborative instructions

Now that your agents can communicate with each other, you can create instructions informing the agent when and how it should communicate with other agents. For the best results, you must provide instructions with the **handle&#x20;**&#x6F;f the agent you want to collaborate with. Here is an example

```javascript
"""
You are a research assistant. Whenever you recieve questions relating to law, you must contact LawAdvisor(handle: law_advistor).
"""
```

Please note the `handle` inclusion. You can find the handle for a specific agent by going to Manage > Agent > Handle.&#x20;

# Best practices and limitations

Contacting other agents increases the latency and response time for the initial agent's response. Adding multiple collaborations in one request will dramatically increase the latency as these requests will run sequentially. You should aim to limit the amount of collaboration requests to one per user query.&#x20;

Collaboration requests to other agents will always create a new thread with each request. The agent being forwarded will NOT store any state from the collaboration.&#x20;