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Paper 3 · Question 29

D5 Context Management & Reliability · Paper 3

[Scenario 3: Multi-Agent Research System] A coordinator agent built on the Claude Agent SDK delegates to specialized subagents — web search, document analysis, synthesis, and report generation — to research topics and produce comprehensive, cited reports. Two credible sources report different figures for the same market's size, and one subagent's summary simply picked the larger number. Which TWO practices produce correct handling of conflicting source data? (Select TWO.)

• A.Annotate the conflict explicitly — both values, each with source attribution — and let the coordinator decide how to reconcile before synthesis, rather than silently selecting one
• B.Average the two figures into a single compromise value
• C.Always adopt the more recent source and discard the other
• D.Require publication or data-collection dates in subagents' structured outputs, so temporal differences are not misread as contradictions
• E.Exclude both sources to avoid taking sides

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Correct answer: A, D

A: Conflicts are information: preserve both values with attribution and surface the disagreement for deliberate reconciliation — and carry dates in structured output, since “conflicting” figures often just measure different moments.

B: invents a number no source reported

C: automates a reconciliation that needs judgment — recency is context, not an override rule

D: Conflicts are information: preserve both values with attribution and surface the disagreement for deliberate reconciliation — and carry dates in structured output, since “conflicting” figures often just measure different moments.

E: deletes two credible sources because they disagree

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