SurveyOpen catalog2026

Agentic Artifact Creation.

Systems, Evaluation, Principles, and Opportunities

Tianfu Wang1 Zhezheng Hao2 Xilin Xia3 Lixin Liu4 Mengkang Hu5 Hongzhang Liu6 Xi Chen3 Ziyan Liu3 Xiankun Lin7 Weijia Zhang1 Nicholas Jing Yuan1 Hui Xiong1

  1. 1 HKUST(GZ)
  2. 2Zhejiang University
  3. 3 USTC
  4. 4Tsinghua University
  5. 5The University of Hong Kong
  6. 6The University of Sydney
  7. 7Sun Yat-sen University
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Interactive framework

A live construction process.

Follow the ordered path from task and policy through representation and verification to the artifact, then back to the next task.

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Six families

At a glance.

Artifacts, venues, growth, and applications.

Artifact taxonomy composition

Family totals with their internal artifact-type structure.

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Publication venue distribution

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Family growth

Annual counts across the six artifact families.

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Artifact × application

Coverage density at every cross-axis intersection.

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Survey synthesis

What the survey reveals.

Reliable creation connects decisions, state, evidence, and repair.

Decision Interdependence Failure Observability Diagnosis Repairability

Agency

More agents do not create more agency.

Agency appears when intermediate evidence can redirect later construction decisions, not when a workflow simply adds roles or stages.

Observation Decision

Feedback

A score is not yet actionable feedback.

Feedback becomes operational when evidence names a criterion, localizes affected state, and reaches a feasible repair or escalation.

Evidence Repair

Validity

Accepted evidence has a version.

When requirements, sources, tools, or artifact state change, dependent approvals should expire before selective revalidation.

Change Revalidation

Proportionality

Control should match construction difficulty.

Stronger explicit control helps when decisions are interdependent, failures are hard to observe, or diagnosis does not map cleanly to repair.

Difficulty Control cost

The open edge Global coherence, targeted repair, and persistent system evolution remain thinly evidenced across artifact families.

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    A survey and open catalog of agentic systems for creating, inspecting, and revising artifacts.

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    BibTeX

    @article{wang2026agenticartifactcreation,
  title  = {Agentic Artifact Creation: Systems, Evaluation, Principles, and Opportunities},
  author = {Wang, Tianfu and Hao, Zhezheng and Xia, Xilin and
            Liu, Lixin and Hu, Mengkang and Liu, Hongzhang and
            Chen, Xi and Liu, Ziyan and Lin, Xiankun and
            Zhang, Weijia and Yuan, Nicholas Jing and Xiong, Hui},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28122}
}