We introduce the process harness, a new mechanism for uplifting legacy workflows into Agentic Business Process Management (Agentic BPM) without replacing the underlying workflow engine. A process harness places a policy-governed agentic layer around a deterministic workflow engine, intercepting designated control points to contribute reasoning, adaptation, and oversight while the engine retains structural authority over the process.
arXiv:2606. 27188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the process harness, a new mechanism for uplifting legacy workflows into Agentic Business Process Management (Agentic BPM) without replacing the underlying workflow engine.
By Fabiana Fournier, Lior Limonad
arXiv:2608. 15591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents deployed in production environments face a fundamental tension: the agent's behavior is frozen at deployment time, while the business rules and edge cases it must handle continue to evolve.
By Pouya Ghiasnezhad Omran, Michael Zimmermann, Duncan Cambridge, Ashmita Kapoor, Tanya Dixit
AgentMercury is a scalable framework that synthesizes executable environments from high‑level business scenarios instead of task‑specific benchmarks. It creates a persistent world with entities, services, tools, and invariants, allowing diverse tasks and interaction trajectories to emerge naturally. The authors generated 4,783 environments across 14 industries and 50 countries, and training reinforcement‑learning agents on them improved performance on enterprise workflows and out‑of‑domain benchmarks, while the construction process itself can be learned to increase authoring success.
By Minbyul Jeong, Chanwoong Yoon
arXiv:2607. 14456v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have accelerated the adoption of software development agents, now widely available as Integrated Development Environment (IDE) extensions and standalone applications.
By Harris Borman, Herman Wandabwa, Fusun Yu, Sandeepa Kannangara, Justin Liu, Anna Leontjeva, Ritchie Ng
arXiv:2606. 01199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language agents are increasingly used for social simulation, yet it remains unclear whether they can sustain coherent behavior in structured organizations, where goals must propagate through hierarchy, tasks depend on prior execution, and artifacts accumulate over long horizons.
By Xuancheng Zhu, Yang Yue, Shuaibing Wan, Zihan Dou, Xiaohan Zhang, Yongrui Liu, Guoshun Nan
The paper introduces Knowledge Cards, a new structured artefact designed to capture validated knowledge about specific concepts that AI systems use to make decisions. Unlike existing model, data, and system cards, Knowledge Cards focus on the layer between inputs and outputs, documenting entities, relationships, reasoning patterns, conditions for validity, and provenance, all grounded in a formal domain ontology and signed off by a domain expert. Prototype cards have been created in the energy and pharmaceutical domains, and the schema is released as a public draft for community engagement.
By Liliana Ferreira
arXiv:2607. 21503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production AI agents' failures are less often due to an inability to reason well and more often because they cannot manage what is in their reasoning context: conversation histories, large prompts, large tool definitions, and ballooning tool outputs.
By Gaurav Dadhich
arXiv:2606. 15291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI opens new opportunities for automating Business Process (BP), enabling autonomous decision-making and dynamic adaptation.
By Mohammad Azarijafari, Luisa Mich, Michele Missikoff
arXiv:2607. 07858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to reshape actuarial practice, particularly in domains that require reasoning over unstructured documents, heterogeneous data sources, and regulated decision workflows.
By Robert Richardson, Josh Meyers, Brian Hartman, David Sandberg
arXiv:2604. 22455v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A core component of any AI-Augmented Business Process Management System (ABPMS) is the process frame, which gives the system process-awareness and defines its maximal behavioral boundaries.
By Anti Alman, Izack Cohen, Avigdor Gal, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Marco Montali
arXiv:2607. 08960v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Warehouse operations are governed by Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that encode complex, multi-system decision logic, which must be executed reliably under strict time constraints, yet LLM agents lack mechanisms to enforce procedural compliance and degrade under the context overload full SOP specifications introduce.
By Ning Liu, Kalle Kujanp\"a\"a, Zhaoxuan Zhu, P Aditya Sreekar, Kaiwen Liu, Chuanneng Sun, Jorge Marchena Menendez, Matthew Bales, Tianyu Yang, Shahnawaz Alam, Rose Yu, Baoyuan Liu, Kristina Klinkner, Shervin Malmasi