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title: "Orchestrator · Glossary · Agentic Atlas"
description: "Orchestrator: the role currently holding a larger objective and coordinating bounded parts. It is a relative control role, not a permanent actor type."
canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary/orchestrator"
last-updated: "2026-09-23"
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1. [Agentic Atlas](https://agentic-atlas.dev/)
2. [Glossary](https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary)
3. Orchestrator

Glossary definition

# Orchestrator

Atlas key

orchestrator

Catalog order

24

Used in

4 sections

Catalog revision · e0cb75881244b1a82193ca738b82a0d508dd62e822524ae82873ec79d51dbb61

the role currently holding a larger objective and coordinating bounded parts. It is a relative control role, not a permanent actor type. (workflow decomposition)

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## Used in

- [Cost Relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation#structure-two-branches-one-per-axis) Structure · 1 mention
- [Reference Data](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/reference-data#relationships) Relationships · 1 mention
- [The Session Bill](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/session-bill#context-the-session) Context · 1 mention
- [Subagent Offload](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/subagent-offload#intent) Intent · 1 mention