Orchestration
[/ˌɔːrkɪˈstreɪʃən/]
Definitions
The coordination and sequencing of multiple AI agents, services, or steps in an automated workflow. An orchestrator determines which tools to invoke, in what order, and how to pass outputs between steps to complete a complex task end-to-end.
“The orchestration layer decided to call the search tool before invoking the summarization agent.”
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