Orchestration Component Model and Runtime Contracts
Define the twelve component families that turn authorized work into bounded, durable, observable execution.
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- Purpose: Define the twelve component families that turn authorized work into bounded, durable, observable execution.
- Control rule: The orchestrator advances authoritative workflow state; models and workers propose actions but cannot widen authority or accept their own results.
- Reliability rule: Every loop has measurable acceptance, budgets, stop conditions, and a recovery path.
- Deployment: These are responsibilities and interfaces. A small V1 can implement several in one modular application.
2. Enduring Principle
Keep durable control outside probabilistic execution
The control plane owns workflows, transitions, policy, budgets, approvals, and reconciliation. Workers receive immutable manifests and return structured observations. The orchestration layer coordinates models, knowledge, tools, memory, policy, reliability, telemetry, and humans without allowing one dependency to become the source of truth for the whole run.
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