How does Catalyst differ from traditional workflow engines?

Catalyst differs from traditional workflow engines primarily through its exclusive focus on agentic durable execution, rather than generic deterministic task handling for standard operational use cases. Most traditional tools target data pipelines or DAG-based scheduled work, which struggles with long-lived, probabilistic agent runs needing sustained state retention across interruptions, while Catalyst uses Dapr-based infrastructure to properly handle partial failures. Traditional workflow engines remain well-suited for dedicated deterministic workflow use cases.