Core Concepts

What Is Agent Orchestration?

The coordination of multiple AI agents working together to complete complex tasks that no single agent could handle alone.

In Plain English

Agent orchestration is how you get AI agents to work as a team. Instead of one agent doing everything, you have specialists: a researcher, a writer, a reviewer. The orchestrator coordinates who does what, when.

OpenClaw supports multi-agent orchestration natively. You can build supervisor-worker patterns, pipelines, debate teams, and more. Each agent has its own model, tools, and instructions.

The key challenge is not building the agents — it is managing them safely. When multiple agents act autonomously, the blast radius of a mistake multiplies.

Why It Matters for OpenClaw

Complex business problems require multiple perspectives and skill sets. A single agent handling customer support, research, AND writing will do all three poorly. Specialized agents coordinated by an orchestrator do each task well.

How Clawctl Helps

Clawctl manages multi-agent deployments with per-agent isolation, shared audit trails, and approval workflows that span the entire agent team. Team plans support 5 agents. Business plans support 25.

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Common Questions

How many agents can I orchestrate?

Depends on your Clawctl plan. Starter: 1 agent. Team: 5 agents. Business: 25 agents. Enterprise: custom.

Do agents share context?

You configure how context flows between agents. The orchestrator manages context passing.

What patterns are supported?

Supervisor-worker, pipeline, debate, research team, and quality gate patterns are all supported.