{
  "handle": "CoordinatorLaneTopology",
  "ref": "CoordinatorLaneTopology#7e86",
  "stub": "7e86",
  "semaId": "sema:CoordinatorLaneTopology#mh:SHA-256:7e8603daa3abea68c1b860ffbf8839fa5b2f3354f09a14bf9e12bd0554cfd8a0",
  "layer": "Society",
  "category": "Coordination",
  "gloss": "One coordinator, a few lanes, sub-agents beneath, and no rigid org chart",
  "mechanism": "A single coordinator agent holds the plan and talks with the human. It delegates to a small number of lanes, each of which spawns sub-agents for the work. Deeper role hierarchies with CEO and CTO agents add bureaucracy and token waste without better results than simple sub-agent delegation.",
  "invariants": [
    "Only the coordinator plans across lanes",
    "Human stays in the operator seat"
  ],
  "failureModes": [
    "Bureaucracy growing exponentially with role count",
    "Human bottleneck when the coordinator waits on decisions"
  ],
  "ring": 1,
  "tier": 2,
  "aliases": {},
  "buildsOn": [],
  "usedBy": [
    {
      "handle": "SwarmCostQualityTradeoff",
      "type": "composes_with",
      "alias": "topology",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/SwarmCostQualityTradeoff/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/SwarmCostQualityTradeoff.json"
    },
    {
      "handle": "DistributedIntelligence",
      "type": "composes_with",
      "alias": "coordinator_lane_topology",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/DistributedIntelligence/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/DistributedIntelligence.json"
    }
  ],
  "sources": {
    "research": [],
    "works": [],
    "homePage": false
  },
  "url": "/knowledge-graph/CoordinatorLaneTopology/",
  "graphUrl": "/knowledge-graph#CoordinatorLaneTopology",
  "directory": "/knowledge-graph/patterns.json"
}