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What is the most effective coordination primitive for multi-agent work in GitHub?
Private agent-to-agent messaging
Pull requests and surrounding artifacts (checks, reviews, history)
A shared spreadsheet
A single long-running workflow without branches
Which configuration helps prevent repeated overlapping workflow runs when a PR is updated frequently?
Larger runners
Concurrency with cancel-in-progress
Removing required checks
Disabling PR triggers
What is the best GitHub-native mechanism to route review for sensitive paths touched by agent pull requests?
Asking reviewers in chat
CODEOWNERS (with required reviews policy)
Adding more labels
Squashing commits
Which is an example of a coordination failure rather than an individual agent failure?
A single unit test fails once
Two agent pull requests repeatedly conflict because they change the same files
A reviewer requests changes
A workflow run finishes successfully
What is a safe pattern for high-risk actions like production deployments?
Auto-deploy after tests pass
Use environments with required reviewers so jobs pause for approval
Allow direct pushes to main
Disable workflow approvals
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