AI Agent Building & Orchestration Platforms

When to explore this layer

Explore this layer after a task has a usable specification and someone owns the outcome. Builders turn instructions and tools into executable workflows. Your evaluation should exercise how execution behaves when a tool fails, a person rejects a step, or a run needs to resume.

ILLUSTRATIVE EVALUATION · NOT A CUSTOMER RESULT

Put a real task in the demonstration.

For a fictional service desk, an agent may classify a request and draft a response. In a demonstration, interrupt the workflow after classification and before sending. Resume it, change the draft, then reject the send. Observe whether recovery repeats an external action and whether the approval still applies to the edited content.

Questions to bring to the demonstration

1. Which tool calls require approval, and is approval bound to the exact proposed action?
2. What happens after a timeout when the remote system may already have accepted the request?
3. Can workflow, model and prompt versions be reconstructed for an earlier run?
4. How are credentials isolated between customers, employees and separate agent runs?

Evidence to request

• A recorded failure-and-resume demonstration
• Versioned workflow configuration
• Tool-call and approval logs from the same execution

Record what was demonstrated, what was only described, and what remains unknown. Preserve the product version, environment and date beside each observation.

Where this layer stops

An orchestration feature is not evidence that every connected system enforces the intended policy. Verify the limits of each tool and connector. A builder also cannot establish that the business needed the proposed workflow in the first place.

Connect it to the work

Use a reviewed work unit as the implementation brief: a defined input, expected result, permitted tools, human checkpoint and stop condition. DutyGraph's discovery examples help frame that brief; a directory listing is not a working connector.

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