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: knowing what an agent can reach before it runs, 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.
- Execution telemetry – OpenTelemetry traces and per-capability metrics for every invocation. This is observability, not a compliance audit log: if you need retained, per-tool records of caller identity and authorization decisions, plan to add that at your gateway.
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.
