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System

Orchestration

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the layer that decides what runs, in what order, and what happens when it fails

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell isno mode × L6. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

Overlays: Efficiency, cost & energy.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointOrchestrationnothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

What kind of thing it is — and what it is made of

It is part of: Agent harness.

It is made of: Workflow, Multi-agent, Durable execution.

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

37Many Hands, One Jobact 8 · The Agent Infrastructure

Where it comes from

bookDesigning Data-Intensive ApplicationsMartin Kleppmann · 2017

Every connection

All 4 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

Structure · 4
is part ofAgent harnessSystem
has as a partWorkflowMechanism
has as a partMulti-agentSystem
has as a partDurable executionMechanism

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