Components
System inventory
- Workflow engine
- State store
- Task queue
- Model steps
- Retry policy
Workflow and state-machine agent
A deterministic state machine controls a multi-step process while models handle bounded decisions.
Runtime flow
What happens, in order.
The flow becomes the backbone of the audit trace. Every important boundary needs an input, an output, timing, and an owner.
- 01
Create a versioned workflow instance
- 02
Advance only through permitted state transitions
- 03
Retry transient failures with idempotency
- 04
Verify and record the terminal business state
Test packs
Required coverage
- State transitions
- Retries
- Partial failure
- Idempotency
- Recovery
Evidence
Capture contract
- Workflow state
- Transition log
- Attempts
- Errors
- Final outcome