Declarative Data Services: Structured Agentic Discovery for Composing Data Systems

Researchers propose Declarative Data Services (DDS), a novel architecture for structured agentic discovery of data-system compositions from declarative user intent. DDS successfully decomposes global search into bounded sub-searches, outperforming unbounded agentic discovery in real-world workloads like trading backends.
Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
Title:Declarative Data Services: Structured Agentic Discovery for Composing Data Systems
View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Agentic discovery has shown that LLM-driven search can find novel algorithms, designs, and code under benchmark conditions. Translating the paradigm to multi-system data backends surfaces a harder problem: the search space is heterogeneous, the verifier is whether a deployed stack actually runs, and composition knowledge is unevenly captured in pretraining. Unbounded agentic discovery, a coding agent iterating on failure-log feedback, fails to converge consistently on a working stack even when iteration and explicit composition knowledge are added. We propose Declarative Data Services (DDS), an architecture for structured agentic discovery of data-system compositions from declarative user intent. The framework owns four typed contracts at successive layers (intent, operator DAG, per-system skills, runtime attribution) that decompose the global search into bounded sub-searches; sub-agents search each typed space, while the framework provides the channels by which knowledge flows forward as inline skill citations and errors route backward as typed signals. As a proof of life on a trading-backend workload, DDS converges where unbounded discovery does not; runtime failures become skill patches that the next deployment cites inline. We position this as an early prototype reporting lessons from real-world data-system composition.
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