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Orchestration vs. Single-Agent Tools

August 18, 2026

A single general-purpose agent has to be good at everything, which usually means it’s mediocre at anything specific. Orchestration takes the opposite approach: many specialized agents, each excellent at one job, coordinated by a layer that routes tasks and manages hand-offs between them.

This mirrors how software moved from monoliths to coordinated services — specialization plus coordination outperforms one system trying to do it all.