Graph Engineering·Intermediate·25 min

Agent Workflow Graph Lab

Start from an over-engineered coordinator graph and find the smallest topology that earns its complexity.

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Experience

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Reflection

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LEARNING CONTEXT

Learning context

Graph complexity is justified only when decomposition creates more value than coordination, state and failure-propagation cost.

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Mental models

  • S08-M01Loop vs Graph responsibility boundary
  • S08-M02Sequential, conditional and parallel topology trade-offs
  • S08-M03Delegation contract and shared vs isolated state
  • S08-M04Independent verification, coordination cost and correlated failure

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Transfer the model

Two independent workers now share mutable state. Decide whether parallelism still improves the system after coordination risk is included.

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Carry the idea into another problem or build.

Local iteration and global orchestration are different responsibilities.

The capstone combines Prompt, Context, Harness, Loop, Graph, and Evaluation.

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