FAOPs: Normal Forms and an Algebra for AI Agent Workflows
Organizations increasingly encode operational procedures as multi-step agent skills, here called Agent Operating Procedures (AOPs), that must be traceable, auditable, reproducible, access-controlled, and bounded in time and cost, requirements that regulated sectors make mandatory. Yet AOPs are typically kept as coarse-grained files, in which steps bundle actions, copied procedures drift apart, any step may reach any tool, and refactoring goes unchecked. We present Functional Agent Operating Procedures (FAOP), a formal theory that brings database-grade discipline to AI agent workflows. FAOP recasts each workflow as a typed function over scoped state and subjects an entire library to four p...
| Authors | Ali Mohammadi Shanghooshabad |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 15 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 October 2026 |
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