> ## Documentation Index
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# 🔀 Workflow

**AI Workflow** is the core feature of the Xpert AI platform, designed to support developers in quickly building, debugging, and deploying complex multi-agent collaboration systems through visual orchestration and dynamic execution mechanisms.

The core innovation of the Xpert AI workflow lies in its **hybrid architecture of agents and workflows**, which essentially balances flexibility and efficiency by dynamically adapting to the autonomous needs of different nodes.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/xpertai/CUk-Ab9Rv7YWeJmd/public/img/ai/agent-workflow-hybrid-architecture.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=CUk-Ab9Rv7YWeJmd&q=85&s=c960141def017f4d9de7320de62a2ce6" alt="hybrid architecture" width="2661" height="1367" data-path="public/img/ai/agent-workflow-hybrid-architecture.png" />

1. **Agent Mode** (High Autonomy Nodes)
   * **Use Cases**: Tasks requiring complex decision-making and free-form LLM involvement (e.g., open-ended conversations, creative generation).
   * **Features**: Autonomous reasoning based on LLM, capable of dynamically invoking tools and adjusting strategies to adapt to uncertainties.

2. **Workflow Mode** (Low Autonomy Nodes)
   * **Use Cases**: Structured processes and tasks with clear rules (e.g., data cleaning, API calls).
   * **Features**: Predefined standardized operation chains to ensure execution efficiency and controllability.

3. **Hybrid Collaboration Mechanism**
   * **Dynamic Switching**: Seamless transition between agent and workflow nodes within the same process (e.g., an agent first understands and communicates user needs, then triggers the corresponding workflow to complete the task).
   * **State Sharing**: Data is passed through unified state channels to avoid architectural fragmentation.

**Typical Application Example**: E-commerce Customer Service Scenario

```plaintext theme={null}
[User Query] → Workflow Node → Structured Parsing → Agent Node → Intent Reasoning → Branch Judgment  
                          ↑ ↓  
Workflow Node ← If Inventory Check Needed → Workflow Node → Call Database API → Agent Node → Generate Natural Language Response  
```

Through the hybrid architecture, the stability of database queries is ensured while retaining the flexibility of response generation, with the overall process automatically evolving via state channels.

## Explore Detailed Technical Points

* [**Agent**](./agent/)
* [**Agent Workflow**](./agent-workflow/)
* [**External Digital Expert**](./external/)
* [**Session Variables**](./variables/)
* [**Execution Endpoints**](./terminal/)
* [**Error Handling**](./error-handling/)
* [**Logic Branches**](./if-else/)
* [**Iterating**](./iterating/)
* [**Subflow**](./subflow/)
* [**Answer**](./answer/)
* [**Knowledge Retrieval**](./knowledge/)
* [**Code Execution**](./code/)
* [**Template Transformation**](./template/)
* [**Variable Assigner**](./assigner/)
* [**HTTP Request**](./http/)
* [**Tool Invocation**](./tool/)
* [**Question Classifier**](./classifier/)
* [**Note**](./note/)