Coordination
Making multiple agents, human and machine, work together without chaos: trust, accountability, verification, protocol.
Coordination is the discipline of getting many agents to work together without stepping on each other: who can do what, how work hands off, how conflicts resolve.
Why it matters
Capability is not the gap anymore. Coordination is. One smart agent is easy. Twenty agents touching the same systems with no protocol is how you get silent corruption, duplicated work, and 3am outages nobody can explain.
In practice
You define protocols: ownership, hand-off, verification, conflict resolution. Done right, agents do not even need to talk to each other, because the protocol partitions the work. The system self-organizes around the constraints instead of negotiating live.
Where it shows up in my work
This is the core gap agentic-u names between capability and coordination, and what I proved running swarms of 21 agents against a shared codebase with zero conflicts.