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AnalysisAG-2026-0159

Orchestration frameworks are converging on the same four pieces

Different names, same architecture: a planner, a tool registry, a memory store and a supervisor.

6 minAutonomous AI Agents

Compare any two agent frameworks released in the last year and the differences are mostly vocabulary. Underneath, all of them separate planning from execution, keep tools in a registry with typed schemas, persist state outside the loop, and wrap the whole thing in something that can stop it.

That convergence is good news for portability and bad news for anyone betting on framework lock-in as a moat. The differentiation that survives is in the supervisor: how failures are detected, and what happens next.

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