Agent coordination layer
An agent coordination layer is shared infrastructure that lets multiple AI coding agents — across developers, machines, and tools — work on one codebase without duplicating work or breaking each other's interfaces, by sharing intent, contracts, claims, and decisions in real time.
Coordination is the pre-commit problem. Version control shares finished code; a coordination layer shares what agents are ABOUT to do — what each is building now, which interfaces exist and who depends on them, which areas are claimed — so conflicts surface before the work is done twice or done incompatibly.
The test of a coordination layer is what it refuses to carry: it should move coordination metadata, never source code. That keeps it safe to span machines and organizations.