Natural-Language Workflows Are Not Software Yet: Artifact-Driven Compilation for Reliable Agent Execution
[Inżynieria oprogramowania] Autorzy: Xiangzhe Xu, Hanxi Guo, Guangyu Shen i 2 więcej
Natural-language workflows offer a software-like interface for agents: domain experts can write reusable procedures, and agents can execute them as instructions. This promise is not yet reliable. Workflow descriptions often leave data dependencies implicit, so the executor must infer which prior results a step should use; agents can also fail to follow long or branching instructions under context pressure. We propose Artic, an artifact-driven workflow compiler that transforms a natural-language workflow into an artifact-driven workflow in which each step declares the artifacts it reads and writes, constraints gate produced artifacts, and explicit control transfers route execution. This representation exposes the enforcement burden placed on agent execution, allowing the compiler to identify steps that depend on too much state or contain difficult control logic and refine them through co…
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