OFL Workflows

A library of agent workflow definitions for deliberation and facilitation platforms.

Part of the Open Facilitation Library.

What are workflows?

Workflows describe how AI agents facilitate group processes — how they get input from participants, process it, draw from memory/context, and produce outputs. Each workflow maps the concrete agent architecture of a platform or reusable pattern.

The key filter for inclusion: does an AI agent actively conduct, guide, or mediate a conversation or group process? This covers AI facilitation across domains: deliberation, market research, education, innovation workshops, dispute resolution, and more.

This complements OFL's facilitation patterns (abstract methods like cross-pollination or Delphi, described in the synthesis knowledge base) and agent skills (executable skills following the Agent Skills specification for use in platforms like Harmonica or OpenClaw).

Structure

schema/
  workflow-schema.yaml    # Schema definition
products/                 # How real platforms implement AI facilitation
  anthropic-interviewer.yaml
  bot-mediation.yaml
  complexchaos.yaml
  crowdsmart.yaml
  habermas-machine.yaml
  harmonica.yaml
  juno.yaml
  listen.yaml
  orchidea.yaml
  outset.yaml
  parlay.yaml
  remesh.yaml
  talk-to-the-city.yaml
  thinkscape.yaml

Workflow Schema

Each workflow is a YAML file describing:

• Agents — what agent roles exist (facilitator, synthesizer, clustering engine, etc.)
• Participants — how people interact (text/voice/vote, sync/async, scale)
• Stages — the ordered pipeline: input → processing → memory → output
• Data flow — what goes in, what comes out, where data lives
• Pattern mapping — which OFL facilitation patterns it implements
• Source type — how the workflow was documented:
  • verified — from open-source code or detailed published methodology
  • researched — from academic papers or detailed technical write-ups
  • inferred — reconstructed from public marketing/website descriptions

See schema/workflow-schema.yaml for the full definition.

Product Workflows

Platform	Source	Type	Agents	Scale
Anthropic Interviewer	researched	Async 1-on-1 interviews	Interviewer + Analyst	1,000+
Bot Mediation	researched	AI dispute mediation	AI Bot Mediator	2 (bilateral)
ComplexChaos	inferred	Async organizational alignment	Dialogue Agent + Pattern Synthesizer	5-200
CrowdSmart	researched	Generative Collective Intelligence	Collective Reasoning Agent + Pairwise Engine + Private LM	10-10,000
Habermas Machine	verified	Iterative consensus	Statement Generator + Critique Processor	5-1,000
Harmonica	verified	Async structured deliberation	Facilitator + Cross-Pollinator + Synthesizer	3-500
Juno	inferred	Unscripted AI interviews	Interviewer + Thematic Analyst	5-1,000
Listen	inferred	AI research pipeline	Recruiter + Interviewer + Analyst	10-1,000
Orchidea	researched	AI workshop facilitation	AI Ideator + Proposal Drafter	3-500
Outset	researched	Multimodal AI interviews	AI Moderator + Fraud Detector + Analyst	10-5,000
Parlay Ideas	researched	Classroom discussion facilitation	Parlay Genie + Participation Tracker	5-40
Remesh	inferred	Real-time collective dialogue	Clustering Engine + Consensus Predictor + Human Moderator	20-5,000
Talk to the City	verified	Elicitation + clustering	WhatsApp Bot + Topic Clusterer + Visualizer	10-10,000
Thinkscape	researched	Swarm intelligence	Conversational Surrogates + Orchestrator	14-400

Planned Features

• Abstract workflows — reusable, product-agnostic workflow definitions extracted from the product layer (in abstract/)
• Schema.org JSON-LD — generate web pages with schema.org structured data from each YAML workflow, mapping to HowTo/HowToStep (stages), SoftwareApplication (products), Role (agents), and Dataset (outputs). This would make workflows discoverable by search engines and consumable by AI assistants (Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT). Deliberation-specific concepts (cross-pollination, pairwise comparison, consensus) have no schema.org equivalent and would remain in the YAML schema.
• OpenClaw integration — generate agent configurations for OpenClaw or similar orchestration frameworks from the abstract workflow layer

Contributing

Add a new workflow by creating a YAML file following the schema. Product workflows go in products/, reusable abstract workflows in abstract/ (coming soon).

License

MIT