Durable Execution
Why might BPMN tools be a poor fit for autonomous agents?

BPMN tools can be strong for human-readable business processes with known steps, approvals, and workflow diagrams. Autonomous agents are different because the execution path may be chosen at runtime by the model, and tool use may vary from one run to another. That makes recovery, state, security, and auditability harder to model as a fixed business process diagram. BPMN may still fit deterministic business workflows around an agent. Diagrid Catalyst is more relevant when the runtime itself needs dynamic tool-call recovery, identity, policy, and observability.
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