One conductor, many instruments
The orchestrator is where plans become actions. It schedules agents, manages handoffs to humans, enforces policy, and records everything that happened.
In a mature agent platform, the orchestrator is the system of record. It knows what's running, why, and whether it's allowed. Every other component — agents, tools, humans — is a worker that reports back to it.
What the orchestrator owns
- 01
Scheduling
Tasks are dispatched to the right agent, in the right order, at the right priority — respecting tenant isolation and rate limits.
- 02
Policy enforcement
Every tool call clears policy checks at the orchestrator before reaching the target system. Guardrails live in one place, not sprinkled through agent code.
- 03
Audit and replay
Every invocation produces a durable record you can inspect, replay, or export — the same record auditors care about.
Capabilities
Multi-tenant isolation
Data, execution, and cost are isolated per tenant. No shared state bleeds between customers.
Backpressure handling
Rate limits and slow targets produce queueing with explicit behavior — not silent drops.
Saga coordination
Long-running, multi-step processes are coordinated with compensation logic, not left to each agent to implement.
Horizontal scale
The orchestrator is stateless at the request path; add capacity without a reschedule.