Glossary · Agents & tools
Orchestration
The control logic that sequences, branches, delegates, retries, pauses, resumes, and terminates work across model and tool steps.
Why it matters
Reliable agent behavior depends on explicit workflow decisions outside the model, especially when tasks have dependencies or consequential side effects.
In practice
Encode stable steps as a workflow or state machine, expose bounded decisions to the model, and persist transitions before external writes.
Common confusion
Orchestration is not synonymous with autonomy or multi-agent systems; one agent can be orchestrated through a deterministic workflow.
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