Agentic orchestration is the control layer that sits above individual agents. It decides which agent gets which task, monitors whether tasks are completing correctly, handles failures, and manages handoffs between agents, tools, and human reviewers.
Consider a new employee onboarding workflow. One agent creates system accounts. Another sends onboarding documents. Another schedules orientation. A human approval checkpoint gates access to sensitive systems. The orchestrator manages all of this as a single coordinated flow, ensuring each step happens in the right order and that failures do not silently break the process.
Without it, individual agents act in isolation and the overall process has no coordination. Orchestration is what transforms a collection of capable agents into a working system.
