People search “chorus” and get a choir, an alphabet, or a graph product. On this site the word is an operating protocol.
What is CHORUS? A six-skill coordination protocol for teams of 2 to 15 people who share work with specialised AI workers: Charter, Handoff, Orchestrate, Review, Update, Sync.
Org charts name reporting lines. CHORUS names coordination lines. If the receiver reconstructs the job from a chat log, you have a paste.
Not a choir, not an alphabet, not a swarm demo
The collision is in the glossary on purpose. This is not music. This is not a children’s alphabet. This is not CrewAI. A graph of model calls is not this protocol.
A charter is seven fields that turn a vague intention into a contract any worker can be handed. A handoff is a six-field packet. They are not the same artifact. Mixing them is how work gets lost when you add agents.
Two pages
Why multi-agent systems fail is the coordination-gap article. This page is the name.
The Multi-Agent Organization is live. You do not need the hardcover to write the packet before the paste.