An infrastructure intelligence layer can coordinate existing systems without pretending that one new platform must absorb them all. This matters now because infrastructure organizations need cross-system coordination but cannot safely replace all records, controls, and specialist expertise at once.
EY describes specialized agents working across infrastructure functions and systems that retain their own responsibilities. The article places an orchestration agent above those specialists while keeping consequential decisions with people. The mechanism is federated coordination: domain agents read bounded context, an orchestrator manages dependencies, and human owners resolve ambiguity and approve high-impact actions.
Architects should expose clear interfaces, identities, provenance, and escalation paths before granting an orchestrator broader authority. The evidence is EY's architectural proposal and examples, not independent proof that the layer improves every asset or project. Watch whether deployments maintain traceability across agents and show fewer handoff failures without creating a new opaque control bottleneck.