AI Glossary

Orchestration

Also called agent orchestration

What does “Orchestration” mean?

Orchestration: Coordinating the moving parts of an AI system: which model or agent runs when, what information each receives, how results are combined and what happens on failure. Orchestration can be fixed code, another model acting as manager, or a mix.

Orchestration visual guide: Coordinating the moving parts of an AI system: which model or agent runs when, what information each receives, how results are combined and what happens on failure. Orchestration can be fixed code, another model acting as manager, or a mix.
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What is an example of “Orchestration”?

An orchestrator might route billing questions to one agent and technical issues to another, then check both answers.

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See also

Multi-agent systemTermPlannerTermAgentic workflowTermHandoffTerm

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