Engineering Agent

Repeatable engineering tasks — locating a controlling specification, extracting parameters, comparing a condition against a standard — consume engineering hours without producing new knowledge.

A narrowly scoped agent operating on a defined workflow with cited sources can carry out those steps reliably enough to be trusted with the routine cases.

• Workflow definition with explicit steps and stopping conditions.
• Retrieval tools over documents and structured process context.
• Extraction step that returns values with units and source references.
• Human review checkpoint before any recommendation is acted on.

Whether restricting the agent to one repeatable workflow improves reliability relative to open-ended question answering.

• Narrow scope improved reliability markedly; open-ended prompting was not dependable.
• Explicit stopping conditions prevented the agent from inventing follow-on steps.
• Reviewers accepted output far more readily when values carried units and citations.