ControlFlow
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ControlFlow is a Python framework for building agentic AI workflows that lets developers define observable, modular tasks and assign one or more specialized AI agents to work on them. It provides a flow abstraction to orchestrate complex behaviors across tasks, supports interactive tasks and structured outputs, and is designed for developer control and transparency when delegating work to LLMs. The project includes a simple runtime API (cf.run, cf.Task, @cf.flow), example patterns for using Pydantic result types, and instructions for configuring LLM providers with OpenAI as the default. Installable via pip, it targets teams building programmatic, multi-step AI applications rather than end-user single-chat bots.
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ControlFlow emphasizes a task-centric architecture to decompose complex AI workflows into manageable, observable steps. It produces structured, type-safe results using Pydantic-compatible result types to validate outputs. The framework supports specialized agents per task and multi-agent orchestration within flows. Developers can tune control versus autonomy through instruction patterns and interactive tasks that accept user input. Native observability is provided through Prefect 3.0 integration for monitoring and debugging. It offers LLM configuration with OpenAI as the default provider, simple APIs for running tasks and defining flows, automatic thread management in simple runs, and ecosystem integration hooks to work with existing code and tools.
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ControlFlow helps developers build predictable, testable, and maintainable AI-powered applications by turning monolithic prompts into explicit tasks and flows. By enforcing structured, validated outputs it bridges LLM responses and traditional software, making downstream processing and type-checking easier. Specialized agents and multi-agent orchestration enable efficient assignment of subproblems, while instruction patterns let teams balance autonomy and control. Observability through Prefect support aids monitoring and debugging of agentic workflows. LLM provider configuration and examples lower the barrier to integrate different models, and simple APIs make it straightforward to add interactive steps and iterate on complex, multi-step AI behaviors.
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