David Khourshid: Model agent logic as state machines — it works extremely well
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-09-20
XState creator David Khourshid shares a practical agent engineering pattern: model agent logic as a state machine. Give the agent the current state plus a goal; the events it can trigger in that state become its available Choices. He says this constrains the agent's decision space effectively and "works extremely well."
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