"The “Smart Agent” Trap: I tried making agents that could “figure out” what to do. They couldn’t. Be explicit."

So what about this solution is actually agentic?

Overall, it sounds like you sat down and did a proper business process analysis and automated it.

Your subagents for sure have no autonomy and are just execution steps in a classic workflow except you happen to be calling an LLM.

Does the orchestrating agent adapt the process between invocations depending on the data and does it do so in any way more complex than a simple if then branch?