Static orchestration is the silent killer of multi-agent RAG systems. The query changes, but the agent topology stays the same. The work introduces HERA, a framework that jointly evolves multi-agent orchestration and role-specific agent prompts. At the global level, it optimizes query-specific agent topologies through reward-guided sampling. At the local level, it refines individual agent behaviors via credit assignment and dual-axes prompt adaptation. On six knowledge-intensive benchmarks, HERA achieves an average improvement of 38.69% over recent baselines. Why does it matter? As multi-agent RAG systems scale, the gap between fixed pipelines and adaptive orchestration will only grow. HERA shows that letting the system learn its own coordination structure produces compact, high-utility agent networks. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.00901 Learn to build effective AI agents in our academy: academy.dair.ai

@dair_ai Adaptive orchestration like HERA is crucial. Moving from static directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to dynamic agent topologies will significantly reduce RAG retrieval overhead. Great technical insight.