Workflow, Execution & Reliability Engineering · Workflow Execution and Reliability

Scope: durable automation with recoverable side effects.

Capabilities: 17

Agent workflow learning path

Start with Workflow Definition and State Machine for the transition contract and a ticket-review example. Read Scheduling and Event Triggers for occurrence identity, overlap, missed work, and the admission boundary before worker dispatch.

Agent Graph Engineering connects these workflow concerns to node, edge, and state design. Loop Engineering shows how admitted items are attempted, checked, and recorded across agent runs. Use the remaining reliability capabilities for the mechanisms those designs depend on.

#	Capability
1	Workflow Definition and State Machine
2	Durable Execution
3	Task Queue and Background Workers
4	Scheduling and Event Triggers
5	Timeouts Retry and Backoff
6	Idempotency and Deduplication
7	Circuit Breaker and Bulkhead Isolation
8	Concurrency Control
9	Distributed Locking
10	Compensation and Saga
11	Partial Failure Recovery
12	Dead Letter Queue
13	Workflow Checkpointing
14	Human-in-the-loop Approval
15	SLA Management
16	Workflow Versioning and Migration
17	Kill Switch and Emergency Stop