Orchestration
Orchestration coordinates the order, routing, and results of work across components. In a multi-agent system, it can determine which agent receives a task and how returned results are combined.
[Hugging Face]In practice · hypothetical example
A research manager assigns one worker to gather facts and another to check calculations, then combines their findings.
[Hugging Face]A little deeper
A manager agent is one implementation. The term describes coordination responsibilities, not a guarantee that adding agents improves the result. [Hugging Face]
A common mix-up
Orchestration means all workers run at the same time.
Coordination can be sequential, parallel, or mixed. [Hugging Face]
Must orchestration run every task in parallel?
Sources & editorial notes
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- Orchestrate a multi-agent system ↗ (opens in new tab)Hugging Face · Publication date unknown
Relevant section: Manager agent; Managed agents
Last editorial review: 2026-09-13 by project-owner.
First observed in this corpus: Unknown.
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