Part III · Agents
Chapter 10
Orchestration with Explicit Graphs
The free agent's variance is the price of its freedom — this chapter asks how much of that freedom the system actually needs. Usually less than the design grants.
Deliverable: A declared graph with typed state, per-node budgets, checkpoints, human-in-the-loop interrupts and per-node evaluation.
What's inside
11 topics
- 10.1Why Graphs Beat Free-Form Agents
- 10.2Deciding Where Freedom Earns Its Variance
- 10.3Nodes, Edges and Typed State
- 10.4Conditional Routing and Per-Node Budgets
- 10.5Checkpointing and Resumable Runs
- 10.6Agent Runs as Durable Jobs
- 10.7Human-in-the-Loop Interrupts
- 10.8Parallel Branches and Fan-In
- 10.9Cycles, Retries and Loop Guards
- 10.10Per-Node Evaluation
- 10.11Three Orchestration Architectures Compared
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