AI Operations · Glossary
Authored Orchestration
Authored Orchestration is the method by which domain experts compose policies, routines, and the rest of the Eight Components into production-grade AI behaviour, distinct from prompt engineering and workflow automation.
Prompt engineering authors a string. Workflow automation authors a flowchart. Authored Orchestration authors a system of governed decisions composed from the Eight Components of an Interactive Agent.
The method has three properties. It is composable: policies, routines, and macros assemble into larger behaviours without rewriting (see Macro). It is governable: every authored unit is versioned, evaluated, and gated under centralised governance. It is improvable: production traces feed annotation workflows that feed the autonomous improvement loop (see Annotation Workflow).
The protagonist is the domain expert. The platform is the medium. Co-Pilot performs the analytical work that previously required an engineering sprint: trace forensics, pattern extraction, refinement scoping, draft authoring (see Co-Pilot).
Naming the method matters because the alternative is calling everything prompt engineering and accepting the ceiling that comes with it.