Use consensus/debate orchestration for high-stakes answers: run independent agents, then reconcile before returning

Digital Applied·medium signal

Among the production-proven 2026 orchestration patterns, consensus/debate runs several agents independently on the same task and reconciles their outputs (vote or adversarial critique) instead of trusting one model's single pass. It trades extra tokens for a measurable drop in single-model error on ambiguous or correctness-critical work, and pairs naturally with a judge step. Reserve it for decisions where a wrong-but-confident answer is expensive — not for every turn — since the cost scales with the number of debaters.