Beyond the Agentic Loop, in TypeScript: building a shopping agent with the Orchestrator pattern

**TL;DR:** Beyond the Agentic Loop, in TypeScript: building a shopping agent with the Orchestrator pattern

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This post is a TypeScript implementation of the pattern described in "Beyond the Agentic Loop: The Orchestrator Pattern for Multi-Agent Systems" by Amogh Ubale (Stackademic). The original is Python with generic agents; here we keep the idea intact and re-theme it as a shopping assistant so the three execution modes have something concrete to chew on. All the design credit goes to that article — go read it first. The cast: a handful of shopping agents Before the pattern, the scene.

The demo is a small storefront assistant backed by a few single-purpose agents: Catalog — list the categories on offer, or search products by keyword and price. Inventory — check stock and availability for a product. Pricing — look up the current price and any active promotions. Reviews — fetch a product's rating and review highlights. Order — place an order for a product.

A customer request might need just one of these, several of them at once, or a few in a strict order — and deciding which of those shapes a request calls for is exactly what the orchestrator is for. The problem: the LLM as a while loop The default way to build a multi-agent system is the agentic loop : you hand the model a bag of tools

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