The process exists only in spreadsheets, email, and one engineer's memory. Unversioned, unobservable, never run the same way twice.
Chat-AI returns prose with no types and no log. Ask "why did it decide that?" six months later — there is nothing to inspect.
Agent frameworks run model-written tool calls on the host kernel. One bad call reaches your infrastructure, so it never ships.
Versioned and hash-pinned per run. Graphs compose and nest as subflows, so one reviewed flow drops into the next.
Every node receives the full EvalContext as JSON and merges its output into the next snapshot. You design logic, not plumbing.
A Temporal workflow interprets the graph deterministically. It survives worker restarts, network failures, and retries.
5 steps, 22,135 tokens. QA caught a real burst-formula error in the brief and returned 10 authoritative citations.
Parallel branches with coordination rounds, fully replayed from nodeOutputs history.
6 subflows from spec to shipped, with 1 human-in-the-loop gate.