A second assistant can provide another perspective, but also adds context transfer, reconciliation and expense. This section teaches a small, read-only review team: a specification reviewer, an RTL reviewer and a coordinator. The output is a review note for a human engineer, never an automatic design approval.
Use the inline synthetic materials with pencil and paper or local text files. No network, account, API, MCP server, simulator or concurrent agents are required. Role cards and fabricated responses demonstrate workflow mechanics; they are not measured model results. If you later use approved tools, record their actual cost, elapsed time and independently checked findings.
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Choose a team only after defining a fair single-assistant baseline. | |
Give a spec reviewer, RTL reviewer and coordinator explicit read-only contracts. | |
Preserve source identity, uncertainty and completeness across handoffs. | |
Resolve conflicting findings with source evidence and human checks. | |
Enforce read-only access, bounded work and honest partial results. | |
Compare a small review team with one assistant on the same synthetic design. |