Jay McLain

Stop Overengineering Agentic Workflows: Markdown Scaffolding for Procedural Control in Agentic IDEs

2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

This paper introduces Markdown Scaffolding, a file-based control pattern for well-scoped procedural workflows in agentic IDEs. Instead of placing task-specific control logic in external orchestration code, the method organizes workflow procedures, routing guidance, rule modules, …