Auditability principle and the seven-part anatomy of an agentic workflow turn¶
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Description¶
The article defines auditability as the discipline's defining principle: "a workflow that cannot be inspected, replayed or evaluated after the fact is craft, while engineering is accountable and reproducible." Its operational artefact is the audit trail, a frozen record linking intent to specification, context, agent trajectory and verification, which agentic work produces as a byproduct of normal operation. Each workflow turn has seven constituents running as a single act rather than sequential phases: intent, specification, context, plan, execution, verification and the audit trail, each with a corresponding curriculum module.
Design Implications¶
Context¶
Requirements¶
- The practitioner must preserve, name and make navigable the material the workflow generates, so someone other than the original engineer can reconstruct what was decided, why, and what happened
Constraints¶
- The article notes classical software engineering struggled to produce audit trails routinely because engineers wrote them by hand after the fact; the principle's low cost depends on agent-generated records
Target Learners¶
- undergraduate software engineering students
Learning Goals¶
- designing auditable human-agent workflows
- verification before trust
Claims¶
Related Designs¶
- Instructional governance: the designed allocation of authority, agency, accountability, context, and evaluation visibility in AI-mediated teaching interactions
- ASE-26 — the agentic software engineering curriculum this principle organises
Examples¶
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Key Sources¶
- Mikael Gorsky (Holon Institute of Technology). (2026). ASE-26: a curriculum for agentic software engineering as a discipline.
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Auditability principle and the seven-part anatomy of an agentic workflow turn |
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The article defines auditability as the discipline's defining principle: "a workflow that cannot be inspected, replayed or evaluated after the fact is craft, while engineering is accountable and reproducible." Its ope... |
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