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Daniel Xing

Open Dynamic Workflows

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Open Dynamic Workflows (ODW) is a TypeScript/Node CLI runtime for portable dynamic workflows: plain JavaScript scripts that fan coding agents out with agent(), parallel(), and pipeline() — outside the host agent’s own context. Claude Code can already run such scripts inside its private runtime; ODW makes the same scripts portable and standalone, so they become artifacts you can version, share, and run on any coding-agent CLI.

Highlights

  • Portable across agents — run the same workflow script on Codex, Claude Code, Gemini, Qwen, Kimi, or a custom CLI; switch the underlying agent by switching adapters. ODW only shells out to local CLIs, never calling model APIs directly.
  • Claude Code’s dialect, unchanged — export const meta plus injected agent / parallel / pipeline / phase / log / args / budget globals, with top-level await and return. A script written for Claude Code runs here as-is.
  • Out of context, at scale — the plan lives in code, so intermediate work never pollutes the host’s context and you can fan out dozens of subagents.
  • Reliable hand-offs — JSON-Schema structured outputs are validated and retried so multi-stage pipelines compose instead of guessing on free text.
  • Background and observable — every run is a detached worker backed by a run directory with status, logs --follow, result, pause/stop, plus a zero-dependency live web dashboard (odw serve) and a read-only Tauri desktop “observatory”.
  • Zero runtime dependencies — the engine is async TypeScript (parallel is Promise.all, no threads); workflow scripts stay plain .js and ship .d.ts authoring types for editor autocomplete.

Status

Core runtime is shipped on main (v0.3.0): adapter layer, execution bridge, workspace isolation, async scheduler, injected primitives, the loader/transform, the JSON-Schema engine, the background runtime, and the odw CLI — with 129 passing tests. The flagship examples/deep-research.js (fan-out research → adversarial fact-check → cited report) runs end-to-end. Distribution is a prebuilt binary plus a skill (install via script); the npm package is not yet published. Roadmap (v1.5+) includes rich model/agent routing, git-worktree isolation, nested workflow(), token-budget accounting, resume/journaling, and a replay-determinism sandbox. MIT licensed.

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