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NOD: A Multi-Agent Architecture for Reliable LLM Service Agents

ai-technology · 2026-05-13

Researchers propose NOD (Navigator-Operator-Director), a heterogeneous multi-agent architecture to improve reliability of LLM-based service agents in long-horizon tasks. NOD externalizes a structured Global State for explicit task tracking and introduces selective external oversight via an independent Director agent that verifies critical actions. This mitigates error propagation, tool hallucinations, and policy violations. Experiments demonstrate effectiveness.

Key facts

  • NOD stands for Navigator-Operator-Director
  • It is a heterogeneous multi-agent architecture for service agents
  • Addresses unreliability in long-horizon tasks
  • Externalizes a structured Global State for task tracking
  • Introduces selective external oversight before critical actions
  • Director agent verifies execution and intervenes when necessary
  • Mitigates error propagation and unsafe behavior
  • Published on arXiv with ID 2605.12240

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  • arXiv

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