Agent orchestration for engineering teams
How engineering teams can run planner, implementer, reviewer, validator, and deploy-check agents without losing accountability.
Engineering work already has stages, artifacts, tests, and review. Agent orchestration should fit those controls instead of replacing them with chat history.
AstraRunner treats this as an execution-platform concern: the run needs durable state, traceable decisions, cost visibility, and enough structure for teams to review what happened after the agent finishes.
Patterns that work
- Create role agents for planning, implementation, review, validation, and deployment checks.
- Require structured handoffs between roles.
- Store tests and acceptance criteria beside the run artifact.
- Escalate unclear requirements before code changes.
Implementation checklist
- Bind each role to allowed repository actions.
- Persist every handoff.
- Run validation before merge or deploy.
- Record reviewer findings as first-class artifacts.
Watch outs
- Do not let one agent write, review, and approve its own work.
- Do not skip tests because the agent sounded confident.
- Do not bury product decisions in tool output.
Related reading
How this fits the Astra stack
AstraRunner owns the operational path for agent work: orchestration, scheduling, approval gates, traces, costs, and role-agent handoffs. AstraMemory owns durable context and retrieval. AstraGenie turns those capabilities into product workflows for teams that want automation without rebuilding the platform layer.