Archetype: Workflow automation product

Maintained by Trilemma Foundation·1 min read

Use when

Operational playbooks bundle approvals, integrations, retries, or compensating transactions.

Common users

• Customer onboarding teams
• Loan operations
• IT service desks

Minimal MVP

• Step graph with explicit states
• Human task surfaces with SLAs
• Idempotent side effects + dead-letter handling
• Traceability export

Required files

Follow the folder contract:

• README.md
• AGENTS.md
• product.yaml
• product-brief.md
• architecture.md
• data-contract.md
• evaluation.md
• roadmap.md
• demo.md
• src/
• tests/

Evaluation

• End-to-end cycle time
• Stuck-state rate
• Rework percentage after automation

Reference products

• BPMN-inspired internal copilots

Common mistakes

• Chat-only flows with no durable state machine
• Missing rollback when third parties fail
• Secrets embedded in prompts

Agent prompt

You are building a workflow microproduct. Model states, triggers, human gates, and compensating actions before wiring integrations.