The Manager Agent Nobody Sees

Every AI pipeline has a hidden layer: the manager agent that decides which sub-agent runs next, evaluates results, and loops or terminates. But this orchestrator is also the most brittle piece of the system. We break down the three failure patterns—supervisor hallucination, infinite delegation loops, and state bloat—and how frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen handle them differently. Plus: why your manager's system prompt is a value judgment disguised as routing logic. Episode #792812 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/792812