Conflict resolution between role agents
Role agents will disagree. Production systems need policy for resolving conflicts without hiding dissent.
Disagreement is useful signal when preserved correctly. It becomes risk when the system averages it away or lets the loudest role win.
AstraRunner treats this as an execution-platform concern: the run needs durable state, traceable decisions, cost visibility, and enough structure for teams to review what happened after the agent finishes.
Patterns that work
- Classify conflicts as requirement, evidence, policy, or quality disagreements.
- Escalate policy conflicts to humans.
- Require final synthesis to mention unresolved risks.
- Use graders to compare competing outputs.
Implementation checklist
- Record both sides of a disagreement.
- Define tie-break authority.
- Attach evidence to each claim.
- Track whether conflict resolution improved outcomes.
Watch outs
- Consensus can erase minority warnings.
- Supervisor agents need policy limits.
- Unresolved conflicts should not ship silently.
Related reading
How this fits the Astra stack
AstraRunner owns the operational path for agent work: orchestration, scheduling, approval gates, traces, costs, and role-agent handoffs. AstraMemory owns durable context and retrieval. AstraGenie turns those capabilities into product workflows for teams that want automation without rebuilding the platform layer.