Textual Gradients and Workflow Evolution: How AdaptFlow Reinvents Meta-Learning for AI Agents
TL;DR for operators Most agent teams eventually discover that “the workflow” is not one thing. A customer-support agent, a coding agent, and a mathematical reasoning agent may all use decomposition, verification, consensus, and answer extraction—but not in the same order, not with the same emphasis, and definitely not with the same failure modes. Static agent templates look tidy in architecture diagrams. Then the first heterogeneous workload arrives, and the diagram starts quietly sweating. ...