What is Agent Orchestration?
The design and coordination of multiple AI agents working together on complex tasks, where each agent has a specialized role, defined tools, and clear boundaries. Orchestration determines how agents communicate, share context, handle failures, and escalate decisions to humans.
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In practice
As AI moves from single-prompt interactions to multi-agent workflows, orchestration becomes the hard engineering problem. Good orchestration patterns look a lot like good team management: clear responsibilities, minimal handoff friction, and well-defined escalation paths. Tools like Claude's agent SDK, LangGraph, and CrewAI are making multi-agent systems accessible, but the hard part remains designing the right agent topology for the task.