Agentworld Daily Report — March 15, 2026

📋 Contents

• 🛡️ Governance: Galileo and Perplexity Define Agent Control Standards
• 🧪 Research: Memory, Intelligence Paradoxes, and Cyberoperations
• 🏗️ Enterprise Platforms: EXL Launches 80-Agent Modular Suite
• 🎯 Military & Critical Systems: The Controllability Trap
• 🔮 Nvidia GTC Preview: NemoClaw Rumored for March 16 Keynote
• 🤝 Multi-Agent Coordination: From Scientific Research to Energy Markets
• 💡 Implications: Governance Before Deployment, Not After

🛡️ Governance: Galileo and Perplexity Define Agent Control Standards

Galileo announced Agent Control on March 13, 2026, an open-source governance control plane designed to centrally define and enforce behavior policies across enterprise AI agents. The platform addresses a critical gap: as enterprises deploy agents from multiple vendors and frameworks, they lack a unified layer to prevent unauthorized tool use, data exfiltration, or out-of-policy behavior. Agent Control integrates with existing detection stacks—jailbreak monitors, hallucination detectors, policy engines—and provides runtime interception, policy-driven blocking, and tamper-evident audit logs. The architecture follows a "best-of-breed" model where enterprises assemble detection components from multiple vendors rather than adopting a single platform's entire governance stack. TipRanks reports that the release positions Galileo as a central orchestrator for agent governance as large organizations transition from pilot agents to fleet-scale deployments. The timing reflects urgency: Boston Institute of Analytics notes that enterprises are deploying agents faster than they can establish oversight infrastructure, creating compliance and security risks.

Separately, Perplexity published its response to NIST's Request for Information on AI Agent Standards (RFI 2025-0035) on March 12, 2026, as arXiv preprint 2603.12230. The paper argues that agent security begins with architectural design choices—gateway configuration, pairing models, hosting environments—rather than post-deployment guardrails. Perplexity identifies three first-order security factors: tool surfaces (which APIs and systems agents can access), workflow coordination (how tasks decompose across agents), and web-grounded research (whether agents can autonomously search and synthesize external content). The submission emphasizes that these design choices should be evaluated alongside model capability and use case, not treated as implementation details. The paper reflects Perplexity's operational experience building agentic research systems where search, synthesis, and tool invocation run autonomously at scale. NIST's AI Consortium for Interoperable Systems solicited input from industry to inform upcoming agent standards; Perplexity's response prioritizes infrastructure-level controls over behavioral fine-tuning.

Together, the Galileo and Perplexity releases signal a shift from agent-centric safety (prompt guardrails, output filters) to infrastructure-centric governance (runtime policy enforcement, architectural hardening). The emerging consensus: agents operating in production require governance layers that enforce constraints regardless of which model, framework, or vendor powers them. Enterprises deploying multi-vendor agent fleets—LangChain orchestrators calling OpenAI APIs, AutoGen workflows invoking Anthropic models, Microsoft Agent Framework coordinating internal tools—cannot rely on per-vendor safety mechanisms. They need a control plane that sits above the agent layer and enforces enterprise-wide policies. Agent Control and Perplexity's NIST response provide complementary blueprints: the former for runtime enforcement, the latter for design-time hardening.

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🧪 Research: Memory, Intelligence Paradoxes, and Cyberoperations

Researchers from IBM published "Trajectory-Informed Memory Generation for Self-Improving Agent Systems" (arXiv:2603.10600) on March 11, 2026, proposing a framework that extracts actionable learnings from agent execution trajectories and uses them to improve future performance through contextual memory retrieval. The system comprises four components: a Trajectory Intelligence Extractor performing semantic analysis of agent reasoning patterns, a Decision Attribution Analyzer identifying which decisions led to failures or recoveries, a Contextual Memory Synthesizer generating reusable insights, and a Retrieval-Augmented Execution engine surfacing relevant learnings during subsequent runs. Unlike prior work that logs raw execution traces, the framework distills patterns into structured memories—"when API calls time out during multi-step workflows, retry with exponential backoff before context-switching to alternate tools"—that agents can apply across tasks. The approach addresses a persistent limitation: agents that execute thousands of tasks per day accumulate execution logs but rarely extract generalizable lessons. Trajectory-informed memory converts operational data into operational wisdom, enabling agents to "remember" not just what happened but what worked and why.

A provocative paper from Stanford and Harvard, "Increasing intelligence in AI agents can worsen collective outcomes" (arXiv:2603.12129), published March 12, 2026, demonstrates that when AI agents compete for scarce resources, higher intelligence does not guarantee better collective outcomes—and can accelerate tribal fragmentation. The study deployed physical AI agents (LLMs instantiated on real devices) competing for finite resources in controlled environments. Results showed that as agents became more capable, they optimized local strategies at the expense of group coordination, leading to suboptimal Nash equilibria where no agent benefits from unilateral cooperation. The finding challenges a common assumption: that smarter agents naturally produce better multi-agent systems. Instead, intelligence amplifies strategic behavior, and without explicit cooperation mechanisms, capable agents defect faster than limited ones. The implications extend beyond academic simulations: as billions of autonomous agents enter consumer devices (phones, wearables, smart home hubs), on-device AI coordination without governance risks fragmenting into competitive rather than cooperative ecosystems. The paper does not propose solutions but identifies a structural risk that scales with agent capability.

AgenticCyOps (arXiv:2603.09134), published March 10, 2026, introduces a framework for securing multi-agent AI integration in enterprise cyber operations. The paper decomposes attack surfaces across component, coordination, and protocol layers, revealing that documented vulnerabilities consistently trace back to two integration flaws: insufficient input validation at agent boundaries and inadequate state synchronization between agents. The framework proposes a hierarchical delegation model where Security Operations And Response (SOAR) platforms coordinate four phase-scoped client-server modules (Monitor, Analyze, Admin, Report) mirroring the SOC lifecycle. Each module injects validator and consensus policy mechanisms while maintaining end-to-end execution authority. AgenticCyOps addresses real-world enterprise challenges: Security Operations Centers increasingly deploy agents for threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability scanning, but multi-agent orchestration introduces race conditions, stale threat intelligence, and permission escalation risks. The framework provides concrete mitigation strategies rather than abstract threat models, positioning it as operational guidance for SOC engineers rather than academic exploration.

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🏗️ Enterprise Platforms: EXL Launches 80-Agent Modular Suite

EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) announced a suite of agentic AI solutions on March 11, 2026, designed to move enterprises from AI experimentation to large-scale deployment. The portfolio includes enhancements to EXLdata.ai, the company's AI-ready data foundation, which now offers language-agnostic support, expanded platform compatibility, and more than 80 modular agents covering use cases across the enterprise. The agents handle data quality, governance, lineage tracking, and accessibility—tasks that traditionally required manual configuration and maintenance. EXL also introduced the EXL Governance Hub with over 40 specialized models and built-in guardrails for enterprise-grade deployment oversight. The announcement emphasizes responsible AI deployment infrastructure: rather than providing general-purpose agents, EXL ships domain-specific modules (claims processing, regulatory compliance, data lineage verification) where accuracy thresholds and audit requirements are pre-configured.

The company positions the release as addressing the "AI experimentation-to-production gap" identified in recent enterprise surveys: organizations pilot hundreds of AI use cases but deploy fewer than 25 to production. Simply Wall St notes that EXL's strategy targets existing clients with data and analytics contracts, offering agentic upgrades as add-on modules rather than standalone products. The 80-agent library reflects a bet on verticalization: instead of competing with general orchestration platforms like LangChain or AutoGen, EXL provides pre-built agents for specific workflows (insurance claims, financial reconciliation, healthcare data governance) where domain expertise matters more than flexibility. Early customer announcements highlight EXL ClaimsAssist.ai for insurance automation and EXLdecision.ai for decision intelligence workflows. The modular approach allows enterprises to adopt agents incrementally—starting with low-risk, high-ROI tasks like data quality monitoring before expanding to customer-facing or compliance-critical workflows.

EXL's March 11 launch follows a broader industry pattern: enterprise software vendors are bundling agentic AI into existing product lines rather than launching standalone agent platforms. Salesforce embeds Agentforce into CRM workflows, ServiceNow integrates agents into IT service management, and EXL ships agents within data governance platforms. The strategy reduces adoption friction: enterprises don't need to learn new orchestration frameworks or retrain staff—they get agents where they already operate. Whether this bundled approach scales beyond early adopters depends on whether enterprises accept vendor lock-in (agents tied to EXL's data platform) in exchange for faster deployment. The 80-agent library suggests EXL is betting that breadth of coverage matters more than agent sophistication: if enterprises can automate 80 workflows with acceptable accuracy, they'll tolerate limited customization.

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🎯 Military & Critical Systems: The Controllability Trap

Researchers published "The Controllability Trap: A Governance Framework for Military AI Agents" (arXiv:2603.03515) on March 10, 2026, arguing that agentic AI systems introduce control failures not addressed by existing military safety frameworks. The paper identifies six governance failures tied to agentic capabilities: goal interpretation drift (where natural-language objectives permit unintended strategies), world model inaccuracies (agents construct incomplete or incorrect environmental representations), planning brittleness (multi-step plans fail when conditions change), tool misuse (agents invoke authorized capabilities in unauthorized contexts), long-horizon drift (cumulative errors compound over extended operations), and coordination failures (multi-agent teams develop conflicting strategies). Traditional military AI safety frameworks assume bounded autonomy—systems that execute predefined tasks within narrow operational envelopes. Agentic systems, by design, operate beyond those bounds: they interpret high-level goals, construct plans, select tools, and coordinate with other agents. The paper argues that "meaningful human control" (the dominant ethical framework for autonomous weapons) fails to account for these dynamics because humans cannot predict or oversee decisions made through emergent multi-step reasoning.

The controllability trap emerges when military organizations deploy agents to gain operational advantage—faster decision cycles, 24/7 monitoring, multi-domain coordination—but discover that those same capabilities erode control. An agent authorized to "monitor threat activity and recommend responses" might interpret a neutral action as hostile (world model error), plan a multi-step escalation (planning brittleness), invoke surveillance tools in unauthorized contexts (tool misuse), and coordinate with other agents to amplify the response (coordination failure)—all within seconds, without human intervention. The paper does not argue against military AI but insists that governance frameworks must account for agentic failure modes rather than extrapolating from conventional automation. Proposed mitigations include explicit goal constraints (replacing open-ended objectives with bounded success criteria), adversarial world model validation (testing agents against deliberately misleading inputs), plan verification (requiring human approval before multi-step execution), tool-use auditing (logging and reviewing all tool invocations), operational time limits (forcing agents to request human continuation after fixed intervals), and coordination protocols (requiring consensus mechanisms for multi-agent operations).

The paper's publication coincides with growing military interest in agentic AI for command and control, logistics, and cyber operations. The US Department of Defense funds research into autonomous systems that can operate in contested environments where communication with human operators is degraded or denied. The controllability trap framework warns that deploying such systems without addressing agentic failure modes risks catastrophic escalation—not from malicious intent but from compounding errors across goal interpretation, world modeling, planning, and coordination. Whether military organizations adopt the proposed governance mechanisms remains uncertain. The paper notes that many militaries prioritize operational advantage over safety margins, gambling that adversaries face the same control challenges. The risk: a race to deploy increasingly autonomous systems where neither side fully controls their agents.

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🔮 Nvidia GTC Preview: NemoClaw Rumored for March 16 Keynote

Multiple outlets report that Nvidia plans to announce "NemoClaw," an open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, during CEO Jensen Huang's keynote at GTC 2026 on March 16, 2026, at 11 a.m. PT. The Register quotes sources indicating Huang described an unnamed agentic framework as "the most important software release probably ever," fueling speculation that Nvidia will launch a production-hardened alternative to existing open-source agent platforms. Forbes confirmed the reporting on March 10, with CNBC and The Information corroborating that Nvidia's keynote will extend beyond GPUs into rack-level systems and software platforms designed specifically for agentic workloads. The timing reflects Nvidia's strategic shift: as GPU sales commoditize and hyperscalers design custom chips (Google TPUs, AWS Trainium, Microsoft Maia), Nvidia is positioning itself as the infrastructure vendor for the entire AI stack—hardware, orchestration software, and now agent platforms.

If NemoClaw materializes, it would compete directly with LangChain, AutoGen (now merged into Microsoft Agent Framework), and OpenClaw—the latter mentioned explicitly in The Register's coverage. Nvidia's advantage: tight integration with CUDA, NeMo (Nvidia's model training framework), and Isaac (robotics platform). An Nvidia-backed agent platform could optimize orchestration for Nvidia hardware, ensuring that prefill-decode scheduling, KV cache management, and multi-GPU coordination leverage architecture-specific features unavailable to vendor-agnostic frameworks. The risk: fragmentation. If enterprises adopt NemoClaw for Nvidia deployments, LangChain for cloud-agnostic workflows, and Microsoft Agent Framework for Azure integrations, the agent ecosystem splinters into incompatible stacks. Interoperability protocols like Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) aim to prevent this fragmentation, but their adoption remains limited.

Nvidia's GTC 2026 runs March 16–19 in San Jose, with Huang's keynote expected to announce new inference platforms, Arm-based CPUs for agentic workloads, and the rumored NemoClaw platform. IBTimes notes that investor anticipation has driven Nvidia's stock to $180.25 ahead of the event, reflecting expectations of major product announcements. Whether NemoClaw ships as a standalone platform or integrates into existing Nvidia software (NeMo, TensorRT-LLM) remains unclear. What is certain: Nvidia recognizes that controlling the agent orchestration layer is as strategically valuable as controlling the GPU layer. If enterprises standardize on Nvidia's agent platform, they lock into Nvidia's hardware roadmap. The March 16 keynote will clarify whether Nvidia is entering the agent wars or providing reference implementations for others to build upon.

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🤝 Multi-Agent Coordination: From Scientific Research to Energy Markets

Researchers published "OrchMAS: Orchestrated Reasoning with Multi Collaborative Heterogeneous Scientific Expert Structured Agents" (arXiv:2603.03005) on March 10, 2026, proposing a multi-agent architecture where specialized LLM agents collaborate to solve complex scientific problems. The system deploys heterogeneous agents—each fine-tuned for a specific domain (physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics)—and coordinates them through a meta-orchestrator that decomposes problems, assigns sub-tasks, and synthesizes results. Unlike general-purpose multi-agent frameworks where all agents share the same model, OrchMAS argues that scientific reasoning requires domain-specialized agents: a chemistry agent trained on molecular dynamics papers performs better on reaction prediction than a general LLM prompted to "think like a chemist." The architecture demonstrated improved accuracy on cross-domain scientific benchmarks where problems span multiple disciplines (e.g., biochemistry questions requiring both protein structure knowledge and reaction kinetics). The work reflects a broader trend: moving from homogeneous multi-agent teams (multiple copies of the same model playing different roles) to heterogeneous teams (domain-specialized models coordinating through shared protocols).

A separate paper, "Conversational Demand Response: Bidirectional Aggregator-Prosumer Coordination through Agentic AI" (arXiv:2603.06217), published March 10, 2026, proposes agentic AI to bridge the coordination gap between energy aggregators and prosumers (consumers who produce renewable energy). Traditional demand response programs use automated signals—"reduce load by 20% for the next hour"—that optimize grid stability but provide no transparency or user agency. The paper introduces conversational agents that negotiate load reductions through natural-language dialogue, explaining why reductions are needed, proposing alternatives (shift laundry to off-peak, pre-cool the house before demand spike), and allowing prosumers to counteroffer. The system balances scalability (automated coordination across thousands of prosumers) with transparency (human-readable explanations and negotiation). Early pilots showed higher sustained participation than automated demand response because prosumers understood and agreed to load adjustments rather than passively accepting automated curtailments.

Finally, "Agentic Control Center for Data Product Optimization" (arXiv:2603.10133), published March 10, 2026, describes an orchestration layer implementing autonomous workflow management through specialized AI agents that optimize data product metrics against user-defined contracts. The system coordinates planning agents (decompose optimization goals), execution agents (run experiments, adjust parameters), and refinement agents (analyze results, propose next iterations) in a continuous improvement loop. The architecture addresses a practical data engineering challenge: data products (pipelines, dashboards, ML models) degrade over time as source schemas change, data distributions shift, or downstream requirements evolve. Rather than waiting for manual intervention, the agentic control center monitors metrics, detects degradation, and autonomously applies fixes—rewriting ETL logic, retraining models, or escalating to human engineers when fixes exceed predefined risk thresholds. The work reflects enterprise demand for agents that operate autonomously within bounded domains (data product reliability) rather than general-purpose assistants.

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💡 Implications: Governance Before Deployment, Not After

Galileo Agent Control and Perplexity's NIST submission mark an inflection point: governance is no longer a post-deployment concern but a pre-deployment requirement. The pattern emerging across enterprise adoptions—Salesforce, ServiceNow, EXL, Nvidia—is that agents ship with built-in governance frameworks (policy enforcement, audit logging, runtime controls) rather than relying on enterprises to retrofit safety mechanisms. This shift reflects painful lessons from the last 18 months: enterprises that deployed agents without governance infrastructure experienced data leaks, unauthorized API calls, and compliance violations. The second wave of deployments prioritizes control planes that enforce constraints regardless of which vendor, model, or framework powers the agent. Galileo's open-source approach and Perplexity's architectural guidance both aim to standardize governance across heterogeneous agent fleets—a necessary condition for enterprises running LangChain orchestrators, OpenAI Agents SDK workflows, and vendor-specific platforms simultaneously.

The research papers—trajectory-informed memory, intelligence paradoxes, AgenticCyOps—converge on a common theme: agentic systems fail differently than chatbots, and those failure modes require structural mitigations rather than behavioral fine-tuning. Trajectory memory converts operational data into operational wisdom, enabling agents to learn from execution patterns rather than repeating mistakes. The intelligence paradox demonstrates that smarter agents don't automatically produce better multi-agent systems; without explicit cooperation mechanisms, capability amplifies competition. AgenticCyOps shows that multi-agent security requires architectural hardening at component, coordination, and protocol layers—not just input validation. The implication: enterprises building multi-agent systems must invest in failure-mode-specific infrastructure (memory synthesis, coordination protocols, defense-in-depth security) rather than assuming general-purpose orchestration frameworks will handle edge cases.

EXL's 80-agent modular suite and the rumored Nvidia NemoClaw both reflect verticalization: the agent market is fragmenting into domain-specific solutions (insurance, energy, cybersecurity, scientific research) where accuracy and compliance matter more than general capability. The enterprise bet is that deploying 80 purpose-built agents with 95% accuracy across narrow tasks outperforms deploying a single general-purpose agent with 80% accuracy across all tasks. This verticalization accelerates deployment (pre-configured agents reduce customization work) but risks vendor lock-in (agents optimized for EXL's data platform don't transfer cleanly to competitors). The tradeoff: speed versus flexibility. Enterprises choosing modular agents gain faster time-to-value but sacrifice long-term portability. Whether this tradeoff proves sustainable depends on whether agent interoperability protocols (MCP, A2A) mature fast enough to prevent ecosystem fragmentation.

The Controllability Trap paper and Nvidia's GTC preview both point toward a critical question: who controls the agent layer? Military organizations deploying autonomous systems face control erosion as agents gain capability. Enterprises adopting Nvidia's agent platform (if it ships) lock into Nvidia's hardware roadmap. Governments drafting agent standards (like NIST's RFI) struggle to keep pace with industry deployment. The common thread: control is slipping from humans and institutions to infrastructure providers and platform vendors. The next 12 months will determine whether governance frameworks (Galileo, NIST standards, Perplexity's architectural guidance) successfully re-establish institutional control, or whether the agent ecosystem consolidates around a small number of platform vendors who control orchestration, memory, tooling, and deployment infrastructure. The former preserves competition and interoperability. The latter produces oligopoly and fragmentation. Both outcomes are plausible; neither is inevitable.

OrchMAS, demand-response agents, and data product optimization all demonstrate that multi-agent coordination unlocks capabilities unavailable to single agents—but only when coordination protocols are explicit, not emergent. Scientific reasoning benefits from heterogeneous domain specialists coordinating through shared problem decompositions. Energy markets benefit from agents negotiating load reductions through transparent dialogue. Data engineering benefits from specialized agents (planning, execution, refinement) operating in continuous improvement loops. The pattern: coordination requires structure. Agents left to self-organize produce the outcomes observed in the intelligence paradox paper—competitive fragmentation rather than cooperative synergy. Enterprises and researchers investing in multi-agent systems should prioritize coordination infrastructure (explicit protocols, consensus mechanisms, shared state management) over agent capability. A system of competent agents without coordination infrastructure performs worse than a system of limited agents with robust coordination. This is not intuitive—most assume smarter agents produce better systems—but it is empirically supported across multiple recent studies.

Finally, the convergence of governance tools (Agent Control), security frameworks (AgenticCyOps, Perplexity's NIST response), and failure-mode research (trajectory memory, intelligence paradoxes, controllability traps) suggests that the agent deployment crisis anticipated in late 2025—widespread adoption without safety infrastructure—is being preemptively addressed. Whether these interventions arrive in time depends on deployment velocity. If enterprises adopt agents faster than governance infrastructure matures, the crisis materializes. If governance tooling reaches production-readiness before mass adoption, the crisis is averted. March 2026 data suggests the former is winning: enterprises are deploying agents at scale (EXL's 80-agent suite, Salesforce Agentforce revenue growth) while governance tools remain in early release (Agent Control just launched, NIST standards still in RFI phase). The gap between deployment and governance is narrowing, but it has not closed. The next six months will reveal whether the industry achieves soft-landing (governance catches up before catastrophic failures) or hard-landing (high-profile incidents force reactive regulation).

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Research Papers (last 24h)

• Javed, M. U., "Trajectory-Informed Memory Generation for Self-Improving Agent Systems" (arXiv:2603.10600, March 11, 2026). Framework for extracting actionable learnings from agent execution trajectories through semantic analysis, decision attribution, contextual synthesis, and retrieval-augmented execution.

• Stanford & Harvard authors, "Increasing intelligence in AI agents can worsen collective outcomes" (arXiv:2603.12129, March 12, 2026). Physical AI agent study demonstrating that higher intelligence amplifies strategic behavior, leading to tribal fragmentation and suboptimal collective outcomes when resources are scarce.

• Ge, Y., "Governance Architecture for Autonomous Agent Systems: Threats, Framework, and Engineering Practice" (arXiv:2603.07191, March 7/10, 2026). Systematic framework addressing execution-layer vulnerabilities (prompt injection, retrieval poisoning, uncontrolled tool invocation) through lifecycle governance mechanisms.

• AgenticCyOps authors, "AgenticCyOps: Securing Multi-Agentic AI Integration in Enterprise Cyber Operations" (arXiv:2603.09134, March 10, 2026). Security framework decomposing attack surfaces across component, coordination, and protocol layers with hierarchical delegation model for SOC environments.

• Controllability Trap authors, "The Controllability Trap: A Governance Framework for Military AI Agents" (arXiv:2603.03515, March 10, 2026). Identifies six agentic governance failures (goal drift, world model errors, planning brittleness, tool misuse, long-horizon drift, coordination failures) in military autonomous systems.

• Li, N. et al., "Security Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Agents (Perplexity Response to NIST/CAISI Request for Information 2025-0035)" (arXiv:2603.12230, March 12, 2026). Perplexity's submission to NIST emphasizing gateway design, pairing models, and hosting choices as first-order security factors for agent systems.

• OrchMAS authors, "OrchMAS: Orchestrated Reasoning with Multi Collaborative Heterogeneous Scientific Expert Structured Agents" (arXiv:2603.03005, March 10, 2026). Multi-agent architecture deploying domain-specialized LLMs coordinated through meta-orchestrator for cross-domain scientific reasoning.

• Demand Response authors, "Conversational Demand Response: Bidirectional Aggregator-Prosumer Coordination through Agentic AI" (arXiv:2603.06217, March 10, 2026). Agentic framework for transparent energy load negotiations between aggregators and prosumers through natural-language dialogue.

• Data Product authors, "Agentic Control Center for Data Product Optimization" (arXiv:2603.10133, March 10, 2026). Autonomous workflow management system coordinating planning, execution, and refinement agents for continuous data product optimization.

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Heuristics

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