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Agents, Orchestrated

One layer of the agentic stack per episode. Built for real, reviewed in public. This page is the visual companion: films, repos, and a codemap. The essays stay where they are.

“Autonomy is table stakes. The moat is everything around the agent.”

Essays: zishanalikhan.com/series/agents-orchestrated. This hub does not replace that index.

Episodes

3 shipped. 3 queued. Watch, read, or open the code.

EP 01 ✓ shipped Jun 2026

Loops: the agentic primitive everything converged on

“The loop you can audit is the only one that ships.”

Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity all shipped a /goal-style command. Autonomy stopped being the differentiator. How each loop decides it is done is the product. The film was itself a loop: one /goal pointed at a spec, then a four-layer verification pass.

Two-by-two map of agentic coding loops the 2×2
EP 02 ✓ shipped Jul 2026

AG-UI: the agent that streams an interface, not a transcript

“One process. Three models. Zero glue code.”

AURUM: a private bank onboarding clients on Camunda 8. Every agent decision streams as live UI over AG-UI. When the money gets serious, the process pauses for a human in Operate. Runs without API keys in shadow mode.

AURUM customer view customer
AURUM advisor desk advisor desk
EP 03 ✓ shipped Jul 2026

Agent payments: mandates, not trust

“Agents that can pay are easy. Agents you can audit paying are the product.”

AP2 signed mandates. A $7,000 ceiling. Tampering the limit is refused by cryptography; getting close is escalated by a Camunda DMN table. Four paths: golden, tamper, HITL, breach.

AP2 customer view customer
TicketVault merchant site TicketVault
EP 04 ○ queued

Multi-LLM Polyglot

One process, many models. Routing decided by the orchestrator, priced per case.

EP 05 ○ queued

Agent-to-Agent

Agents delegating to agents. Where orchestration beats a swarm, and where it does not.

EP 06 ○ queued

Verification, Deployed

Agents have a shape now. Making the verification layer a deployable artifact.

How the layers compose

The process is the orchestrator. The LLM is the language layer.

Humans
Customer · advisor · operator · merchant Three surfaces, one stream. Operator view is the raw wire.
EP 02-03
Wire
AG-UI over SSE TEXT_MESSAGE, TOOL_CALL, GENERATIVE_UI, USER_TASK.
EP 02-03
Loop
Generate → run → check → repeat Done is evidence, not vibes.
EP 01
Control
Camunda 8 · BPMN + user tasks Paused tokens are the product.
EP 02-03
Grounding
Knowledge base as a process step What it cannot verify, it does not invent.
EP 02
Authority
AP2 mandates · ES256 JWS You sign the rules. The agent signs the cart. The merchant verifies both.
EP 03
Policy
DMN decision tables Wealth routing. Spending policy. Visible in Operate.
EP 02-03
MCP

Connects agents to tools and context.

A2A

Connects agents to other agents.

AG-UI

Connects agents to users, the last mile.

AP2

Connects agents to money, with a signature.

For the extra curious

A visual map of the three public repos. Click a node for the file, what it emits, and the GitHub link.

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