Course lesson · Lesson 7

Orchestration Patterns: Ephemeral and Durable

Choose between workflows and agents, and between ephemeral and durable orchestration, for each kind of task.

What you'll take away

Choose an orchestration pattern — single-agent, ephemeral, or durable — from the work's duration and recoverability needs.
Use ephemeral delegation for bounded, parallel, short-lived subtasks; reserve durable Kanban for staged, recoverable, role-based work.
Design what happens when one agent's output is poor, incomplete, or stale before adding more agents.
Map the trust model of a multi-agent system — which agent can see which memory and trigger which actions.

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