Your question is Design an Agent System for a Multi-System Workflow. Take a moment with it on the right.
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Design an agent system to automate an existing workflow made up of about 4-5 independent systems, covering investigate/summarize/execute-style steps
Asked in the Karat technical phone screen stage. The interviewer gives many supporting details for the scenario.
Explain how you would clarify the workflow, represent state across systems, select tools, coordinate investigation and execution, and handle uncertainty. Discuss where deterministic orchestration, retrieval, model inference, human approval, and validation belong. Address observability, retries, authorization, idempotency, and failure recovery.