Separation of Generic Runtime and Control Profile
StateM strictly distinguishes between two architectural layers:
- Runtime: Supplies the generic, domain-agnostic mechanics for state persistence, transition validation, hook execution, history logging, and crash recovery.
- Control Profile: Encoded in a YAML runbook, this layer specifies the concrete phase states, prompts, checks, repair paths, and procedural practices required for a particular workflow or task family.
This separation enables the underlying runtime infrastructure to remain reusable across different agents, models, and environments, while procedural knowledge accumulates modularly within the versioned control profile.
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Prep Sessions
Engineering State-Bound Execution Runtimes for Autonomous Agents @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ch.2 Agent Runtime Design and Execution Framework - Engineering State-Bound Execution Runtimes for Autonomous Agents @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
StateM Agent-Native Runtime Architecture - Engineering State-Bound Execution Runtimes for Autonomous Agents @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
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Compare StateM's runtime execution architecture with developer-led workflow graphs and unconstrained CLI agents. Explain how each of the two alternative paradigms handles execution and identify how StateM organizes the primary agent's reasoning process.
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What specific file format does StateM use to externalize an agent's execution state into a runbook?
State as Context-and-Contract Boundary
Separation of Generic Runtime and Control Profile
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Which set of responsibilities is handled directly by the generic StateM Runtime layer rather than the Control Profile?
The StateM runtime infrastructure must be re-engineered or modified whenever an agent is deployed across different models or environments.
In what specific artifact format is the StateM Control Profile encoded?
Explain the structural separation between the Runtime and the Control Profile in StateM, and describe the benefits this architectural division provides.
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