Agent Orchestration

The coordination layer that routes tasks between multiple agents and tools — deciding what runs, in what order, and how results are combined.

Orchestration is how the agentic web scales from one agent to many; agent-gateways and A2A give the orchestrator standard rails to route over.

term
Agent Orchestration
category
core
short_def
The coordination layer that routes tasks between multiple agents and tools — deciding what runs, in what order, and how results are combined.
long_def
Orchestration is the control plane of a multi-agent system: an orchestrator (or 'supervisor' agent) decomposes a goal, dispatches sub-tasks to the right agents or tools, manages dependencies and parallelism, and assembles the final result. It is the difference between a pile of agents and a system.
see_also
multi-agent-system delegation a2a
etymology_origin
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestration_(computing) — term from systems/DevOps automation, applied to agent coordination
related_to
multi-agent-system delegation a2a agent-gateway
contrast_with
Unlike a single agent's internal loop, orchestration coordinates across many agents and tools — a level above any one agent's reasoning.
example
An orchestrator handling 'research and draft a report' dispatches search agents in parallel, waits for all, then hands their findings to a writer agent.
source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestration_(computing)
status
active
why_it_matters
Orchestration is how the agentic web scales from one agent to many; agent-gateways and A2A give the orchestrator standard rails to route over.
sameAs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestration_(computing)
bridge_entity
multi-agent-system
last_verified
2026-07-06
md_twin
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