Agent Orchestration

Raven constructs and revises its own agent harness, and OpenAI's Agents API turns the harness into a managed service. Two moves automating the same layer away from developers, and why the audit problem is the part that matters.

The framework debate consolidated into a spectrum. The next argument is over orchestration topology: every multi-agent design reduces to who holds state and control, and a February 2026 research cluster is formalizing that choice as an optimization problem rather than a brand pick.

The agent-framework market consolidated into four orchestration patterns, but those patterns leak into each other by the vendors' own docs. They are primitives on a spectrum from deterministic to autonomous, and the decision is which primitive you need, not which framework.