---
title: "Fully-Connected Debate · agent topology · Agent Fieldbook"
url: https://agentfieldbook.org/design/topologies/debate-full-mesh/
description: "N agents in a fully-connected mesh iterate arguments and counter-arguments each round until consensus. Every agent sees every other's proposal per round."
section: "Design · Topologies"
source: Agent Fieldbook — generated from the published page
---

# Fully-Connected Debate

N agents in a fully-connected mesh iterate arguments and counter-arguments each round until consensus. Every agent sees every other's proposal per round.

Verified against [arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18836)

- [arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18836)

In a debate topology, N agents in a fully-connected mesh argue a question: each sees the others' positions, rebuts and revises across rounds, until they converge or a judge decides. The friction is the point: adversarial cross-examination surfaces errors a single agent would miss. It suits open questions where reasoning quality matters more than speed. In anatomy terms it is N reasoning cores sharing a common transcript, iterating.

## In the anatomy

N reasoning cores are fully connected over a shared transcript; rounds of argue, rebut and revise run until convergence; an optional judge core resolves; effectors act only on the settled answer.

## At a glance

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Pattern | Fully-Connected Debate |
| State model | session |
| Example | MASS Debate topology· Constitutional AI critic panels |

## Common use cases

## Strengths

## Weaknesses

## Basis

Description, use cases and trade-offs: Field Book analysis, synthesised from established agent-architecture literature.

## Verified against

- [https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18836](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18836)

The corpus does not rewrite vendor documentation. Where copy is quoted verbatim it is marked as such and attributed to its source.