name: agent-operated-workflows description: >- Use when a bounded real-world procedure has a deterministic happy path but brownfield, variable, or partially knowable state; when an operation must resume from verified evidence; or when deciding whether agent judgment or ordinary code should own a procedure's control loop. metadata: openrig: stage: provisional audience: any agent operating or designing a bounded procedure sibling_skills: - agent-operated-software - openrig-user - systematic-debugging
Agent-Operated Workflows
An Agent-Operated Workflow is a bounded procedure whose control loop belongs to an agent. The agent observes, interprets, sequences bounded actions, verifies their effects, adapts, and escalates genuine ambiguity. Deterministic code remains the exact substrate; it does not pretend to understand every state of a brownfield world.