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type: "Glossary term"
title: "Workflow engine"
description: "Orchestrates multi-step, stateful processes; Arazzo describes them declaratively."
tags: [glossary]
generated: { by: human:crpage, at: 2026-07-09T09:44:00Z }
aliases: "workflow engine; orchestration engine"
status: stable

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Orchestrates multi-step, stateful processes with retries, compensation and durable state. Arazzo describes such workflows declaratively.

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Appears in: arazzo, execution-and-orchestration.

compensation, idempotency.

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