I like what you did with the action catalog as a way to express bounded outcomes!
I think the biggest similar concept in our approaches is that operational safety really requires strict determinism in a lot of places. It's not like a coding agent where you can have it write itself shell scripts to get the job done any which way, and it'll probably be fine. So you wind up wrapping the probabilistic agent as a glue point between deterministic steps to get safe, reliable results.
It's great to be able to put automation into those places that would have required a human brain's worth of context before, because you'd never have been able to write a big enough if-case. But you need that deterministic input and outcome on each side to make sure that results are predictable enough that the system doesn't eat it.
<Insert lenghty ranting about "Go read In Search of Certainty again, Mark Burgess is right" here>
Mama, what a read! Nice work! Same story on macos: recently ditched the big (corpulent, distended, ossified) vagrant + virtualbox _repositories_ for some spritely lima + apple virtualization framework scripts, and been happier for it.
It was a forklift, to be sure, but the machines're snappier, & you buy yourself a little headroom.
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