# StellaOps Source & Job Orchestrator

The Orchestrator schedules, observes, and recovers ingestion and analysis jobs across the StellaOps platform.

## Latest updates (2025-11-01)
- Authority added `orch:quota` and `orch:backfill` scopes for quota/backfill operations, plus token reason/ticket auditing (`docs/updates/2025-11-01-orch-admin-scope.md`). Operators must supply `quota_reason` / `quota_ticket` (or `backfill_reason` / `backfill_ticket`) when requesting elevated tokens and surface those claims in change reviews.

## Responsibilities
- Track job state, throughput, and errors for Concelier, Excititor, Scheduler, and export pipelines.
- Expose dashboards and APIs for throttling, replays, and failover.
- Enforce rate-limits, concurrency and dependency chains across queues.
- Stream structured events and audit logs for incident response.

## Key components
- Orchestrator WebService (control plane).
- Queue adapters (Redis/NATS) and job ledger.
- Console dashboard module and CLI integration for operators.

## Integrations & dependencies
- Authority for authN/Z on operational actions.
- Telemetry stack for job metrics and alerts.
- Scheduler/Concelier/Excititor workers for job lifecycle.
- Offline Kit for state export/import during air-gap refreshes.

## Operational notes
- Job recovery runbooks and dashboard JSON as described in Epic 9.
- Audit retention policies for job history.
- Rate-limit reconfiguration guidelines.
- When using the new `orch:quota` / `orch:backfill` scopes, ensure reason/ticket fields are captured in runbooks and audit checklists per the 2025-11-01 Authority update.

## Epic alignment
- Epic 9: Source & Job Orchestrator Dashboard.
- ORCH stories in ../../TASKS.md.