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AI Agent Glossary

Orchestrator

The component (agent or code) that decomposes a task and delegates to sub-agents or tools.

In an orchestrator–workers pattern the orchestrator receives the goal, breaks it into subtasks, dispatches them to workers, and synthesises the results. It may be an LLM (dynamic decomposition) or code (static). Orchestrators own the top-level context window, so keeping worker outputs compact is the main engineering concern.

Source: Building effective agents — Anthropic

See the numbers behind this term: AI Agent Statistics 2026.