AGENTIC TECHNICAL DEBT AND WHERE ORCHESTRATION BELONGS IN AI AGENT ARCHITECTURE

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Agent systems accumulate debt when prompts and agent loops take responsibility for approvals, side-effect retries, and audit trails. A supplier invoice dispute illustrates how to divide ownership among the model, harness, durable execution, and an orchestration control plane. A single agent inside one application may need only its harness, while processes crossing systems need explicit ownership of recovery and approval.