Doyle-Spare Research
Doyle-Spare Construct

Agentic Workflow Drift

The cumulative institutional operating-state degradation that emerges when unauthorized resolutions are repeatedly executed at the reasoning layer without runtime governance.

Why it matters

Distinguishes an institutional-state condition that accumulates over time from Runtime Semantic Divergence at a single agentic decision.

Control relationship

Authorized meaning must remain connected to the meaning operationalized at runtime.

Agentic Workflow Drift is a cumulative institutional risk condition produced by repeated unauthorized resolutions, distinct from Runtime Semantic Divergence at one decision.