Designing Agent Workflows: Turning Language Models into Reliable Doers
The hard part of agents is not tool calling. It is recovery. Models plan, tools execute, and the system must absorb mistakes without collaps
The hard part of agents is not tool calling. It is recovery. Models plan, tools execute, and the system must absorb mistakes without collapsing into confusion.
Enterprise agents usually work better with semi-structured workflows than with total freedom. State persistence, execution history, and rollback logic matter far more than whether the model sounds impressive in a demo.
Plenty of models can talk. Very few agents can finish work reliably.