In the News: August 24, 2026
A Purdue study on compiling natural-language agent workflows finds faithfulness checking, not compilation alone, drives most of the reliability gain.
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Checking a compiled workflow for faithfulness does most of the reliability work
The authors' starting claim is that a natural-language workflow handed to an agent is not yet software: it carries no explicit data-dependency or control-transfer declarations, so an agent can drift from what was actually specified…
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One harness, three surfaces, authorization held outside the agent entirely
Salapa lays out a deployment pattern for running one unmodified harness across a terminal, an unattended cron job, and a business-facing chat surface under a single identity, with authorization logic held entirely outside the harness…
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