How does Catalyst differ from Prefect for production AI agents?

Catalyst is purpose-built for production-grade AI agentic durable execution, unlike Prefect’s general data engineering workflow orchestration focus. It is AI-native, supports both deterministic and probabilistic agent work, retains critical state across extended pauses, and natively integrates with standard enterprise AI agent stacks. As of the verification date, public Prefect documentation does not list native support for persistent long-running probabilistic agent workflows; confirm with the vendor.