Anatomical Review: Optimizing and Harnessing Workflows — A Section-by-Section Reading of Noguer i Alonso (2026), Task-Specific Combinations of Humans, Software, and AI Agents

This anatomical review systematically dissects Noguer i Alonso's (2026) framework for hybrid workflows integrating human decision makers (H), specified computational procedures (D), and adaptive artificial delegates (A). The paper advances a principled account of agentification, deagentification, automation, and harnessing, grounded in a partial order on delegation profiles rather than scalar autonomy scores, and supported by formal results on permission restriction, invariant preservation, retry exposure, advisory isolation, and the proceduralization gap. While the contribution offers valuable conceptual clarity for task-specific authority allocation in agentic systems, the review identifies limitations in empirical scope (synthetic examples only), the open problem of semantic promotion, and the transferability of formal guarantees to production environments. Implications for AI governance, hybrid intelligence, and institutional design in Global South contexts are discussed.