Orchestration
The layer that coordinates multiple agents or steps toward an outcome — sequencing, branching, retry, and the handling of partial failure.
Why it matters
Orchestration topology is a governance property, not an engineering preference. An explicit state graph can be pointed at: you can name the node where a decision was taken and the transition that permitted it. Free-form conversational loops cannot, which makes them substantially harder to review and effectively impossible to reconstruct. Choose the topology before choosing the framework.
Relationships
Typed edges into the rest of the ontology. These are what make the canon traversable rather than merely readable.
| Verb | Target | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
relatedTo | Orchestration | An association too weak or too general for a stronger verb. |
addresses | Oversight | The subject speaks to the object as a question or concern. |
Record
| Canonical identifier | QIS-TERM-00041 |
| Status | Canonical industry term |
| Adoption | Widely used |
| Domain · Layer | Stack categories · Intelligence |
| Origin | Distributed systems; the dominant framing for multi-agent control flow. |
| Semantic aliases | None recorded. |
| First published | 2026-08-02 |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-02 · 180-day cycle |
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