DGS vs agent frameworks.
Orchestration is necessary. Governance and reviewable artifacts are non-negotiable in real work.
Most agent frameworks focus on routing between tools, prompts, and memory. They’re valuable infrastructure — but they don’t guarantee a reviewable output.
Teams need guardrails: scope control, verification steps, and outputs that can be checked before they change systems or decisions.
DGS aims to generate structured artifacts (specs, plans, architectures) that are meant to be reviewed, versioned, and reused across the org.
You can pair DGS-style outputs with orchestration. The key difference is what the system optimizes for: tools, or outcomes you can govern.
Measure outputs, not tool calls.
If a system can’t produce artifacts your team can review (and reject), orchestration just makes the wrong thing happen faster.