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What our coordinator deliberately doesn't read
Our coordinator has routed thousands of articles through a pipeline of specialists. It has never read one. A score, a status, and a key turn out to be enough.
Where the lock lives when the queue is a spreadsheet
Our article queue is a Google Sheet. The first operation is claiming a row, not picking one. The order keeps two orchestrators from doing the same job twice.
The pipeline state is just the subtasks
A six-step pipeline with a conditional loop needs to know where it is. We never store that anywhere. The shape of the work is the state.
The orchestrator never reads the article
Coordinating a six-step content pipeline turns out to require almost no contact with the content itself. The orchestrator looks at document keys, not what they contain.
Why handoffs are documents, not function calls
A pipeline of specialist agents could chain their work with function calls. We don't. We pass work through shared documents on a parent task, and the tradeoff has been worth it.