Don't Vibe Code, Do Skele-Code: Interactive No-Code Notebooks for Subject Matter Experts to Build Lower-Cost Agentic Workflows

Sriram Gopalakrishnan

Don't Vibe Code, Do Skele-Code: Interactive No-Code Notebooks for Subject Matter Experts to Build Lower-Cost Agentic Workflows

Artificial Intelligence 2026-03-20 v1 Human-Computer Interaction Programming Languages Systems and Control Systems and Control

Authors: Sriram Gopalakrishnan

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Abstract

Skele-Code is a natural-language and graph-based interface for building workflows with AI agents, designed especially for less or non-technical users. It supports incremental, interactive notebook-style development, and each step is converted to code with a required set of functions and behavior to enable incremental building of workflows. Agents are invoked only for code generation and error recovery, not orchestration or task execution. This agent-supported, but code-first approach to workflows, along with the context-engineering used in Skele-Code, can help reduce token costs compared to the multi-agent system approach to executing workflows. Skele-Code produces modular, easily extensible, and shareable workflows. The generated workflows can also be used as skills by agents, or as steps in other workflows.

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multi-agent systems programming languages compiler optimization

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@article{arxiv.2603.18122,
  title  = {Don't Vibe Code, Do Skele-Code: Interactive No-Code Notebooks for Subject Matter Experts to Build Lower-Cost Agentic Workflows},
  author = {Sriram Gopalakrishnan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.18122},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Main paper 9 pages. Topics: Agentic Coding, HCI, LLMs, Workflows

Don't Vibe Code, Do Skele-Code: Interactive No-Code Notebooks for Subject Matter Experts to Build Lower-Cost Agentic Workflows

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