Statewright: Visual state machines for reliable AI agents

Ben Cochran, a Distinguished Engineer with 20+ years in full-stack engineering, DevOps, HPC, and ML at NVIDIA and AMD, has released Statewright, an open-source framework that uses formal state machines to make AI agents more reliable. Instead of relying on massive parameter counts or context windows, Statewright constrains tool and solution spaces with visual state machines. Each state defines which tools the model can access, iteration limits, and valid transitions. The approach uses smaller models (13-20B parameters) to solve real SWE-bench problems. The project is available on GitHub.