AgentML

Hey HN,We’ve been experimenting with how to make AI agents more deterministic, observable, and production-safe, and that led us to build AgentML — an open-source language for defining agent behavior as state machines, not prompt chains.My co-founder posted before but linked to the project website instead of the repo, so resharing here.AgentML lets you describe your agent’s reasoning and actions as a finite-state model (think SCXML for agents). Each state, transition, and tool call is explicit and machine-verifiable.That means you can:- Reproduce any decision path deterministically- Trace reasoning and tool calls for debugging or compliance- Guarantee agents only take valid actions (e.g. “never send a payment before verification”)- Run locally, in the cloud, or within MCP-based frameworksExample:```<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><agentml xmlns="github.com/agentflare-ai/agentml" xmlns:openai="github.com/agentflare-ai/agentml-go/openai" version="1.0" datamodel="ecmascript" name="researcher"><datamodel> <data id="papers" expr="[]" schema='{"type":"array","description":"Fetched papers from Hugging Face"}' /> <data id="summary" expr="''" schema='{"type":"string","description":"Summary of the papers"}' /> </datamodel><state id="start"> <onentry> <log label="Researcher: " expr="`Fetching papers from Hugging Face and summarizing with OpenAI\n`" /> <openai:generate model="gpt-4o" location="summary" stream="false"> <openai:prompt>Summarize these recent AI/ML papers from Hugging Face: {{fetch "https://huggingface.co/api/daily_papers"}} Provide a concise summary of the key trends, breakthroughs, and developments in AI/ML research. </openai:prompt> </openai:generate> </onentry> <transition target="log_summary" /> </state><state id="log_summary"> <onentry> <log label="Researcher Summary: " expr="summary" /> </onentry> <transition target="done" /> </state><final id="done" /></agentml>```We’re using this in Agentflare to add observability, cost tracking, and compliance tracing for multi-agent systems — but AgentML itself is fully open-source (MIT licensed).Repo: https://github.com/agentflare-ai/agentml Docs: https://docs.agentml.devWe also launched SQLite-Graph, a Cypher-compatible graph extension for SQLite, which will serve as the base for AgentML’s native memory layer. It’s also MIT licensed: https://github.com/agentflare-ai/sqlite-graphWould love feedback from anyone building with LLM orchestration frameworks, rule-based systems, or embedded MCP tool servers… especially around how to extend deterministic patterns to multi-agent coordination.— Jeff @ Agentflare