Agent Workflow Memory

https://openreview.net/forum?id=NTAhi2JEEE

Workflow-based memory framework component.

At a glance

Type
Workflow as memory
Tier
T3
Created
2024-09
Latest release
not applicable — not OSS
License
not applicable — not OSS
GitHub
not applicable — no GitHub repo
Pricing
not applicable — not commercial
Funding
not applicable — not commercial

Taxonomy

storage
file
retrieval
injection
persistence
cross-session
update
extraction
unit
skill
governance
inspectable
conflict
llm-arbitrate

When to use

Optimised for: not applicable - research paper

Anti-fit: not applicable - research paper

Pros & cons

Pros

Workflow-pattern abstraction means agents recall multi-step procedures, not just facts.

Cons

Workflow-shaped scope; less applicable to free-form recall.

Claims & capabilities

Induces commonly-reused workflows from past experiences and applies them in offline (training) and online (test-time) modes. Headline: +24.6% on Mind2Web and +51.1% relative success-rate on WebArena over baseline; baseline: BrowserGym autonomous agent without human-annotated workflows; primary datasets: Mind2Web and WebArena (812 tasks across 5 websites).

Technical surface

API surface
not applicable — research paper
Backend storage
not applicable — research paper
Deployment
not applicable — not a deployable product
Embedding model
not applicable — research paper
Multi-tenancy
not applicable — research paper
MCP
not applicable — research paper, no deployed product
A2A
not applicable — research paper, no deployed product
OpenTelemetry
not applicable — research paper, no deployed product

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