Q&A: Can CrewAI Manager Agent Execute Parallel Tasks Automatically?

[ALDRIN121]

Hi everyone ,

I’ve been working with CrewAI and I have a use case where the Manager Agent needs to dynamically decide how to handle incoming queries.

Here’s the scenario:

• A user query comes in.

• The Manager Agent should decide:

  • Whether it can be answered by a single agent, or
  • Whether it needs to delegate tasks to two agents in parallel.

• Once the agents complete their tasks, the Manager Agent should combine their responses to generate the final output.

I’ve previously implemented parallel task execution link: https://docs.crewai.com/concepts/tasks#asynchronous-execution (not using the Manager Agent), but now I need the Manager to make the decision on which agents to involve based on the query.

So my questions are:

1. Can the Manager Agent automatically decide to create and run tasks for multiple agents in parallel?
2. Is there built-in support for the Manager to wait for multiple agent results before crafting a final response?
3. If not, what’s the best way to implement this? Should I build custom logic for parallelism and response aggregation?

Any help, patterns, or examples from the community would be a huge help 🙌
Thanks in advance!