Agentic Artifact Creation: Systems, Evaluation, Principles, and Opportunities

Key points

Reviewing 259 studies published through August 2026, it defined agentic creation with state persistence and observation-based course correction as a research field.
It compared shared challenges and difficulty across 6 artifact families: text, 2D images, audio, video, 3D and spatial artifacts, and behavior such as software.
It identified the trade-off whereby decomposing a task reduces local complexity but increases coordination and reassembly costs.
It warned that learned judges sharing the generating model's preferences and blind spots add little independent evidence.
It proposed principles of making contracts and responsibilities explicit, turning feedback into local repairs, and revalidating affected parts after changes.

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