- Who it helps
- Teams researching repeated business-process automation
- Availability
- Public November 10 preprint. A generally available hosted product or ready-to-run package was not established.
Extract why each action happened
The method uses explanations accompanying tool calls to recover conditions, merges them into a rule document and compiles platform-specific workflow code.
Cost savings have a success-rate tradeoff
On the authors’ production procedures, completion falls from 96.8% to 93.8% while cost drops 24%. Repair improves some benchmark results. These comparisons do not establish equivalent reliability on a new procedure.
What you can do
- Read the evaluation setup and its limitations before applying the result. Open reference ↗
Where the evidence stops
Abstract checked; no workflow compiled, deployed or benchmarked.
Sources read. Public text checked November 15, 2026 UTC. No installation, model inference or full workflow executed.
Sources & further reading
Paper · paper
ReTrace workflow distillation ↗
November 10 abstract read. Completion, latency and repair outcomes differ by benchmark.
Kaiyuan Hou and coauthors · page checked 2026-11-15
Coverage note: Abstract checked; no workflow compiled, deployed or benchmarked.
The record over time (1)
Dated source checks and published explanations. An observation date can differ from the original release date.
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ReTrace converts a written operating procedure and logged agent runs into reusable rules and executable workflows.