glossary
Glossary
Canonical AI engineering definitions: orchestration, multi-agent systems, RAG, context.
- AI Orchestration
- Control of step ordering, branching, state and fault tolerance in an AI workflow.
- Context Engineering
- The discipline of controlling which context, in what volume and at what priority is supplied to an AI-workflow step.
- Multi-agent System
- A distributed workflow of agents with roles, message contracts and explicit coordination.
- RAG Architecture
- Context infrastructure: sources, event-driven indexing, retrieval with re-ranking, context supply and quality evaluation.