Agent orchestrators and agent coordinators are not the same layer

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If you only ever run one coding agent, you do not need either of these. Both mean something like "make several agents work together." But they describe different layers of the stack, with different authority, different failure modes, and different reasons to exist. An orchestrator sits in the control path. Kill your coordinator and every agent keeps typing. A coordinator can let both agents run and raise a finding, precisely because it is not responsible for the run loop.

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