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EDGE: Engine for Deterministic Graph Evaluation through Conversation Simulation from Graph Structured DSL Configuration

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 10 references
Computer Science

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This paper introduces a formal evaluation methodology that is grounded in AgentGraph, a planner powered by a domain specific language that represents agent reasoning through a dynamically adjustable directed graph, and defines novel metrics that measure response and trajectory determinism, structural adherence and semantic consistency across both exact replays and their linguistic variants.

Abstract

As agentic systems evolve into complex multi agent orchestration workflows, there is a growing and critical need for systematic frameworks that measures an agent's behavioral consistency and determinism. In this paper, we introduce a formal evaluation methodology that is grounded in AgentGraph, a planner powered by a domain specific language that represents agent reasoning through a dynamically adjustable directed graph. We leverage this structural formalism and utilize graph traversal algorithms that exhaustively enumerate conversational paths, forming a comprehensive evaluation set that captures the agent's complete behavioral space. We then systematically replay these reproducible trajectories to compare observed outputs and state transitions against the intended DSL specification. To quantify reliability, we define novel metrics that measure response and trajectory determinism, structural adherence and semantic consistency across both exact replays and their linguistic variants. Our system's results demonstrate that agents configured using frameworks like AgentGraph and LangGraph with explicitly structured node transitions show superior determinism over agents that are not configured with controlled transitions.

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