coding-agent-workflows

coding-agent-workflows

A coding agent driven by deterministic workflows whose routing is a typed decision (the "System One" pattern).

A typed decision answers a structured probabilistic question — classify, route, score, verify — instead of generating text. The Lousho form of that is createAgent({ output: DECISION }): the model returns { route, confidence, reason } validated by a zod schema (readable as result.object), and the workflow branches on the typed fields.

request ──► TRIAGE { route, confidence, reason }   ◄── the typed decision
                │ 'fix'      ∧ confident ──► fix flow:      edit → verify
                │ 'refactor' ∧ confident ──► refactor flow: plan → edit → verify
                │ 'explain'  ∧ confident ──► explain flow:  read-only llmCall
                │ confidence < floor     ──► careful path (refactor), whatever
                                            the route said — calibrated abstention

Two properties worth stealing:

• Calibrated abstention. confidenceFloor (default 0.7) routes low-confidence decisions to the careful workflow — the model declares uncertainty, the harness degrades gracefully instead of trusting a shaky route.
• Typed degradation. An unparseable triage reply returns confidence: 0 → careful path. There is no path where a malformed decision silently becomes "fix things".

Run it:

npm run example:coding-agent-workflows            # offline
OPENROUTER_API_KEY=… npx tsx examples/coding-agent-workflows/index.ts

The workflows reuse the phase-pipeline shape; the typed decision generalizes to any classify/route/verify step — see docs/prompting-techniques.md.