Workflow Architecture

Part 2 of the series. A modern affordance engine gives you FSM-grade control without FSM-era rigidity — and resolves the single biggest bottleneck in scaling LLM agents across enterprise workflows: capability discovery. The skeleton is still deterministic. The intelligence is still probabilistic. But the skeleton is no longer a hand-carved fossil.

Part 1 of the series. Deploying LLM-based agents into enterprise workflows without a finite state machine governing their behaviour produces systems that fail unpredictably, can't be audited, and can't be explained to a regulator. Here's the architecture that actually works — and why every Pattern B system inevitably evolves toward it.