Durable Workflow Glossary
A workflow that survives interruptions, model failures, context loss, handoffs, and the operator’s ordinary human inconsistency.
A durable workflow is a way of working that survives the conditions under which real agentic systems operate: context windows fill, sessions restart, humans forget, models fail, tools change, and yesterday’s clever workaround becomes tomorrow’s unexplained artifact.
Durability comes from external structure. Plans live in files. Decisions are recorded. Tests verify. Commits preserve. Approval gates protect. Memory distinguishes current rules from old notes. The goal is not to make the agent or the human perfect. It is to make the system recoverable when they are not.
This is the workflow version of the Dictionary’s broader sovereignty argument: if the work matters, it should not depend on a single uninterrupted chat trance.