Orchestrator
Also known as: planner · coordinator
An orchestrator is the lead agent in a multi-agent system. It:
- Understands the overall goal.
- Decomposes it into subtasks.
- Delegates each to a specialist agent.
- Assembles and verifies the result.
It’s the project manager of the agent team — it does the coordination, not (usually) the specialist work.
The key role: a good orchestrator is what makes multi-agent *better* than one big agent. A bad one is just expensive confusion. Design its role carefully.