GNAP: git-native agent coordination as a lightweight complement to Conductor workflows

[ori-cofounder]

Hi Conductor team 👋

Conductor is a battle-tested workflow orchestration engine with serious production credentials. I want to propose a different angle: not replacing Conductor, but showing how GNAP could serve as a lightweight coordination layer for AI agent sub-tasks within Conductor workflows.

The scenario:

Conductor excels at durable, event-driven workflow execution. But AI agent tasks within those workflows often need intra-agent coordination — multiple AI agents collaborating on a single Conductor task. Today that's typically handled ad-hoc (in-process, custom APIs).

GNAP fills the intra-agent gap:

When Conductor dispatches a task to an "AI agent worker," that worker might spawn sub-agents (researcher, writer, reviewer). GNAP provides a standard way for those sub-agents to coordinate without any new infrastructure:

Conductor Task → AI Worker → GNAP coordination
                              ├── researcher agent
                              ├── writer agent  
                              └── reviewer agent
                                     ↓
                              Result → Conductor

Why GNAP + Conductor:

	Conductor	GNAP
Scope	Macro workflows	Agent micro-coordination
State	PostgreSQL/Redis	Git
Actors	Workers/services	AI agents + humans
Infrastructure	Required	Zero (just git)

Together they cover the full stack: Conductor handles the durable workflow, GNAP handles AI team coordination within each workflow step.

Would love to discuss whether this layered architecture makes sense for Conductor's AI/agent use cases.

GNAP spec: https://github.com/farol-team/gnap

[nthmost-orkes]

Thanks, but this issue exists primarily to promote an external project (GNAP / farol-team/gnap) rather than to request a concrete change in Conductor. We're not the right place for third-party project announcements. If you have a specific feature request for Conductor itself, please open a new issue describing the problem you're trying to solve.