Something is rapidly happening in the .NET agentic AI ecosystem. Frameworks are emerging, patterns are being established, and developers are making architectural decisions that will be hard to reverse. Most of those decisions are converging on the same pattern: workflow-driven orchestration with an LLM attached at key steps.
That pattern has real merit. It also has real limits. Right now, .NET developers are not being offered a genuine alternative.
What workflow-driven actually means
Workflow-driven agent frameworks inherit their shape from orchestration thinking. You define the steps. You define the transitions. The LLM is invoked at points you determine, within boundaries you have set. The developer is the architect of the execution. The LLM is a capable participant in a process you have already designed.
You can look at the code and understand exactly what will happen. When something fails, you know where and why. That visibility is built into the architecture.
