Designing and operating multi-step, multi-model, multi-agent systems. Includes tool routing, planning loops, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and the workflow inf
AI orchestration composes intelligence into systems: routing across models by task and cost, chaining steps with state and error recovery, coordinating agents and tools, and governing the whole flow with budgets, fallbacks, and observability, the conductor's skill of the AI stack.
Core platform skill: as AI estates grow from features to fleets, orchestration engineers who deliver reliability and cost control across the flow become the platform team's spine.
Frameworks for standard patterns, code where control matters, and always own the contracts: validation between steps, explicit state, and traces. The framework choice matters less than the discipline.
Silent partial failure: a step degrades, downstream consumes garbage, nobody alerts. Validation gates between steps and per-step quality telemetry are the antidote.