Agentic Workflow
patternA multi-step process where an AI agent autonomously plans, executes, and iterates on tasks using tools and reasoning.
An agentic workflow goes beyond simple prompt-response interactions. The agent receives a goal, breaks it into steps, executes each step using tools, evaluates the results, and decides what to do next — all without human intervention between steps.
This contrasts with traditional AI pipelines where each step is predefined. In an agentic workflow, the agent can adapt its plan based on intermediate results, retry failed steps, and take alternative approaches when blocked.
Agentic workflows are the building blocks of autonomous agent systems. In SUBCORP, each roundtable conversation is an agentic workflow: the orchestrator selects participants, manages turn-taking, handles errors per-turn, and synthesizes artifacts — all autonomously.