A deep technical discussion on managing multiple async orchestration planes in a distributed system. The hosts examine the architectural challenges of migrating from Durable Objects-based coordination to cloud MCP agents, exploring how state management and coordination concerns become coupled across three layers: browser extensions, Durable Objects, and MCP agents. Key insights include the critical need to separate state persistence from orchestration logic before migration, the implications of multiple consumers (WebSocket progress tracking, analysis pipelines, script generation) requiring real-time awareness of the same pipeline, and how architectural decisions made now will determine the system's scalability and maintainability downstream. This episode provides essential guidance on identifying architectural seams early, establishing a single source of truth for coordination state, and avoiding the trap of retrofitting under migration pressure.

In this episode:
00:00 - The hidden coordination problem: Three async layers competing for control
00:33 - Why Durable Objects became state machines instead of coordinators
00:52 - Splitting concerns before migration: State vs. orchestration
01:22 - Real-time awareness across three consumers demands one source of truth

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Based on my podcast episode "Orchestration Layers and Architectural Seams: Preparing Durable Objects for MCP Migration", help me:
- Understanding software architecture principles
- Best practices in code organization

Analyze my codebase, identify the relevant files, create a plan, then implement the changes.