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Orchestrator — AI Glossary

An LLM or framework component managing the overall flow of a multi-agent system: delegating tasks, routing results, and synthesizing final outputs.

Overview

Orchestrators (LangGraph StateGraph, CrewAI Manager, AutoGen GroupChatManager) decompose goals into tasks, assign tasks to worker agents, collect and validate results, and handle failures (retry, fallback, human escalation). The orchestrator pattern separates task routing logic from task execution, enabling modular agent architectures.

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Last reviewed2026-06-24

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What is Orchestrator?

An LLM or framework component managing the overall flow of a multi-agent system: delegating tasks, routing results, and synthesizing final outputs.

What concepts are related to Orchestrator?

Closely related concepts include worker agent, dag, state machine.