Orchestrators

Command-line orchestrator for coding agents with typed task, validation, merge, and release-readiness boundaries and receipt-backed repository changes

Open Source

Definition

What belongs in Orchestrators?

This category covers systems whose main purpose is coordinating agent work across multiple runs, roles, workers, or workflows rather than implementing one agent in isolation.

Includes control planes and runtimes that coordinate multiple agents or runs through task assignment, isolation, shared state, scheduling, observability, budgets, approvals, or governance. A coding-agent orchestrator must own a material lifecycle across runs, including a separate completion, review, or landing gate.

Scope

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Include when

The system assigns, schedules, routes, or supervises work across agents or agent runs.
Shared state, observability, budgets, approvals, or governance is a material capability.
Long-running or event-driven coordination is explicitly supported.
For coding agents, the product owns task assignment and isolation, retained or shared state or validation evidence, and a separate completion, review, or landing gate.

Exclude when

It is a single-agent framework with no material coordination layer.
It is a generic workflow scheduler that can only launch an agent as an ordinary job.
A coding tool merely launches one agent, supplies prompts, wraps an API or MCP server, advertises agent compatibility, or automates an ordinary developer task without owning a material cross-run lifecycle.

Selection guide

How to compare these tools

What unit of work is coordinated and how is ownership assigned?
How are state, failures, budgets, and approvals managed?
Which agent runtimes can participate?
For coding agents, which controls span runs and what separate gate determines completion, review, or landing?

Typical use cases

Assign and route work across agents or roles
Coordinate long-running and event-driven workflows
Enforce budgets, approvals, and human review
Recover from failed or interrupted runs

Category evidence

Sources for this category guidance

OpenAI Agents SDK agent orchestration guide
The OpenAI Agents SDK documentation describes agent orchestration through manager-called specialist tools, handoffs, chains, loops, and parallel execution.
accessed 2026-09-03

Comparable facts

Orchestrators comparison

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Tool	Classification	Pricing	Interfaces	Deployment	Verification
Symphony	Agent-native	Open Source	WORKFLOW.md configuration, Linear issue-tracker integration, Codex App Server, JSON status API	self-hosted, local workspaces, remote worker hosts	documentation reviewed
Paperclip	Agent-native	Open Source	web application, REST API, command-line interface, agent adapters	self-hosted local, self-hosted server	documentation reviewed
AgentGrid	Agent-native	Freemium	desktop application, MCP	local desktop	documentation reviewed
Mission Control	Agent-native	Open Source	web application, CLI, MCP server, REST API, WebSocket, SSE	local, Docker, self-hosted	documentation reviewed
OneCLI	Agent-native	Freemium	web application, CLI, HTTP proxy, Slack	cloud-hosted, self-hosted, agent runners on customer infrastructure	documentation reviewed
OpenRig	Agent-native	Open Source	CLI, terminal UI, MCP	local self-hosted	documentation reviewed
YYLO	Agent-native	Open Source	CLI	local	documentation reviewed