Orchestration Layer

Declarative coordination of agents, tools, and workflows with explicit routing and policy enforcement.

What is Orchestration?

Orchestration is the coordination layer that manages how agents communicate, when tools are invoked, and which policies govern behavior.

In multi‑agent systems, individual agents may be capable, but without explicit orchestration, coordination happens through implicit state sharing or brittle imperative code.

Agiorcx provides declarative orchestration: teams define what should happen, not how to implement it. The platform handles message routing, state propagation, and policy enforcement.

Orchestration Primitives

Agent Roles

Define what each agent does, what tools it can access, and what context it receives. Roles are declared, not coded.

Message Routing

Specify how agents communicate: sequential chains, parallel fanout, conditional branches, or iterative loops.

Tool Policies

Control which agents can invoke which tools, under what conditions, with what rate limits.

Escalation Paths

Define when control should transfer to more capable agents, fallback strategies, or human operators.

State Transitions

Explicit state machine definitions for workflow progression with guards and validation rules.

Control Flow

Branching, looping, parallel execution, and synchronization primitives for complex workflows.

Declarative Workflow Definition

Instead of writing coordination code that mixes business logic with agent communication, teams declare workflows in structured YAML or JSON.

workflow: "document-review" agents: - name: "classifier" role: "document-classifier" tools: ["ocr", "metadata-extract"] - name: "reviewer" role: "content-reviewer" tools: ["knowledge-search", "compliance-check"] - name: "approver" role: "final-approver" tools: ["audit-log"] routing: - from: "classifier" to: "reviewer" condition: "confidence > 0.85" - from: "classifier" to: "human-queue" condition: "confidence <= 0.85" - from: "reviewer" to: "approver" condition: "no-compliance-issues" policies: max_attempts: 3 timeout: 300s escalation: "human-review"

This workflow definition is reviewable by non‑engineers, versionable in Git, and testable independently of application logic.

Why Declarative Orchestration?

Reviewability

Workflows are declared in structured form, not buried in application code. Product teams, compliance officers, and engineers can all review coordination logic.

Testability

Workflows can be tested with simulated agents and mocked tools. No need to run the full application stack to verify orchestration behavior.

Versionability

Workflow definitions live in version control. Teams can see exactly how coordination logic changed over time and roll back if needed.

Modularity

Agents are swappable components. Change agent implementations without rewriting orchestration logic.