Orchestration

The coordination and triggering of agents or steps: deciding what runs when, passing results between them, and handling failures.

Also called

Multi-agent system A setup where multiple agents split up one job and coordinate, working simultaneously or in sequence.

Agent harness The structure around a model that turns it into one working agent: its interface, agent loop, own context and memory, permissions, and list of allowed tools.
Agentic workflow A workflow with fixed steps, set by people or code, where a model handles some of the steps and uses judgment inside them.
Workflow automation A rule-based workflow that runs a process from pre-set rules or pre-written code.
Loop engineering A practice of building where an agent keeps rerunning and checking its own work, with set rules for when it stops and when it asks a person to step in.