Agent orchestration
The coordination of multiple agents or steps toward an outcome, including sequencing, branching, retry, and the handling of partial failure.
Why it matters
Orchestration topology is a governance property. An explicit state graph can be pointed at — you can name the node where a decision was taken. Free-form conversational loops cannot, which makes them substantially harder to review.
Relationships
Typed edges into the rest of the ontology. These are what make the canon traversable rather than merely readable.
| Verb | Target | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
constrains | Task Delegation | The subject bounds what the object may do. |
addresses | Oversight | The subject speaks to the object as a question or concern. |
relatedTo | Orchestration | An association too weak or too general for a stronger verb. |
Record
| Canonical identifier | QIS-TERM-00019 |
| Status | Canonical industry term |
| Adoption | Widely used |
| Domain · Layer | Protocol · Intelligence |
| Origin | General distributed systems usage, applied to multi-agent workflows. |
| Semantic aliases | None recorded. |
| First published | 2026-08-02 |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-02 · 180-day cycle |
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