Agent Workflow Memory
https://openreview.net/forum?id=NTAhi2JEEE
Workflow-based memory framework component.
Active · Verified 2026-10-23 · fresh as of 2026-10-23 · 23 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Workflow as memory vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — not commercial fix
- Funding
- not applicable — not commercial fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-23 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
Memory 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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Other recent method papers — theorized, no distinct product in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
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- Transformer-XL T3
Extends context through segment-level recurrence + caching of hidden states from prior segments. Foundational long-context architecture.
- Generative Agents T3
Park et al. — landmark agent-simulation paper. Reflection + memory stream + retrieval enable believable agent behavior.
- MemoryBank T3
Enhances LLMs with long-term memory. Early influential paper.
- Reflexion T3
Language agents with verbal reinforcement learning.
Sources (22 cited facts, 0 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Workflow as memory vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Workflow-based memory framework component. vendor
- Claims / benefits Induces commonly-reused workflows from past experiences and applies them in offline (tra… paper
- Modalities text (web navigation tasks — Mind2Web + WebArena) paper
- Created 2024-09 vendor
- Mindshare 133 cites · 6.7/mo · 426* / 50 forks · 14 influential SS cites paper
- Citations 70 cites 35/yr paper
- Founders / pedigree Georgia Tech + CMU; Zora Zheng et al.; no lead confirmed vendor
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim — research (evaluated on 1000+ tasks from 200+ domains across Mind2Web an… paper
- Performance +24.6% Mind2Web +51.1% WebArena (relative) paper
- Reproducibility Independently reproduced: 50 forks of https://github.com/zorazrw/agent-workflow-memory; … repo
- Code/weights release Code public + weights closed — https://github.com/zorazrw/agent-workflow-memory · 426* /… repo
- Consistency strong vendor
- Versioning snapshots vendor
- Schema evolution free-form / no schema vendor
- Namespace primitives hierarchical vendor
- Contradiction handling LLM resolves and overwrites vendor
- Pros Workflow-pattern abstraction means agents recall multi-step procedures, not just facts. vendor
- Cons Workflow-shaped scope; less applicable to free-form recall. vendor
- Project & sources OpenReview vendor
- citation-trajectory [{"year":2024,"cum":1,"infl":0},{"year":2025,"cum":9,"infl":2},{"year":2026,"cum":10,"in… paper
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
Related systems
References (1)
- Mind2Web cites — S2 isInfluential citation
Referenced by (2)
- Inducing Programmatic Skills cites — S2 isInfluential citation
- ReasoningBank cites — S2 isInfluential citation