Reference · Glossary
Orchestrator agent
An agent that **plans, delegates, and merges** work from specialist worker agents instead of running every tool itself.
When to use
Multi-step jobs with clear subtasks — research + draft + review, or retrieve + summarize + cite.
When not to
Simple single-tool flows where one loop is enough — orchestration adds latency and failure modes.
Example
Orchestrator receives “Compare two vendors,” assigns retrieval to Worker A and table formatting to Worker B, then merges JSON summaries.