Technical Implementation of Tippy: Multi-Agent Architecture and System Design for Drug Discovery Laboratory Automation

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Hauptverfasser: Fehlis, Yao, Crain, Charles, Jensen, Aidan, Watson, Michael, Juhasz, James, Mandel, Paul, Liu, Betty, Mahon, Shawn, Wilson, Daren, Lynch-Jonely, Nick, Leedom, Ben, Fuller, David
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author Fehlis, Yao
Crain, Charles
Jensen, Aidan
Watson, Michael
Juhasz, James
Mandel, Paul
Liu, Betty
Mahon, Shawn
Wilson, Daren
Lynch-Jonely, Nick
Leedom, Ben
Fuller, David
author_facet Fehlis, Yao
Crain, Charles
Jensen, Aidan
Watson, Michael
Juhasz, James
Mandel, Paul
Liu, Betty
Mahon, Shawn
Wilson, Daren
Lynch-Jonely, Nick
Leedom, Ben
Fuller, David
contents Building on the conceptual framework presented in our previous work on agentic AI for pharmaceutical research, this paper provides a comprehensive technical analysis of Tippy's multi-agent system implementation for drug discovery laboratory automation. We present a distributed microservices architecture featuring five specialized agents (Supervisor, Molecule, Lab, Analysis, and Report) that coordinate through OpenAI Agents SDK orchestration and access laboratory tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The system architecture encompasses agent-specific tool integration, asynchronous communication patterns, and comprehensive configuration management through Git-based tracking. Our production deployment strategy utilizes Kubernetes container orchestration with Helm charts, Docker containerization, and CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment. The implementation integrates vector databases for RAG functionality and employs an Envoy reverse proxy for secure external access. This work demonstrates how specialized AI agents can effectively coordinate complex laboratory workflows while maintaining security, scalability, reliability, and integration with existing laboratory infrastructure through standardized protocols.
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spellingShingle Technical Implementation of Tippy: Multi-Agent Architecture and System Design for Drug Discovery Laboratory Automation
Fehlis, Yao
Crain, Charles
Jensen, Aidan
Watson, Michael
Juhasz, James
Mandel, Paul
Liu, Betty
Mahon, Shawn
Wilson, Daren
Lynch-Jonely, Nick
Leedom, Ben
Fuller, David
Multiagent Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Building on the conceptual framework presented in our previous work on agentic AI for pharmaceutical research, this paper provides a comprehensive technical analysis of Tippy's multi-agent system implementation for drug discovery laboratory automation. We present a distributed microservices architecture featuring five specialized agents (Supervisor, Molecule, Lab, Analysis, and Report) that coordinate through OpenAI Agents SDK orchestration and access laboratory tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The system architecture encompasses agent-specific tool integration, asynchronous communication patterns, and comprehensive configuration management through Git-based tracking. Our production deployment strategy utilizes Kubernetes container orchestration with Helm charts, Docker containerization, and CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment. The implementation integrates vector databases for RAG functionality and employs an Envoy reverse proxy for secure external access. This work demonstrates how specialized AI agents can effectively coordinate complex laboratory workflows while maintaining security, scalability, reliability, and integration with existing laboratory infrastructure through standardized protocols.
title Technical Implementation of Tippy: Multi-Agent Architecture and System Design for Drug Discovery Laboratory Automation
topic Multiagent Systems
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17852