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Agent Orchestration

The practice of coordinating how autonomous agents discover skills, negotiate actions, and execute workflows under governance controls.

What is Agent Orchestration?

Agent orchestration is the discipline of coordinating how autonomous AI agents discover available skills, negotiate which actions to take, and execute multi-step workflows – all within defined governance boundaries. It addresses the operational challenges of scaling agent adoption: audit trails, cost boundaries, identity propagation, and policy enforcement.

Agent orchestration in Naftiko

Naftiko supports agent orchestration through:

  • Multi-step capabilities – Orchestration with conditional, for-each, and parallel steps defined in the capability spec.
  • Policy-driven discovery – Agents discover capabilities through governed registries, not uncontrolled tool scanning.
  • Agent safety tags – Per-operation effect classification (read-only, mutating, destructive) so agents can make informed decisions.
  • Identity propagation – Caller identity flows through agent chains so every action is attributable.
  • Audit trails – Complete record of who, what, when, and under which policy for every agent action.

Why it matters

Agents without orchestration create chaos – ungoverned chains, no audit trail, no cost boundaries, and prototypes that never make it to production. Agent orchestration makes automation observable and cost-bounded so organizations can scale agent adoption without scaling risk.

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