Forte: Introducing Actions & Agents. Supercharging composability and automation.
Launching this October, Forte is the Flow network upgrade that brings composability and automation natively to Flow.
Two new primitives, Actions and Agents, let developers compose reusable, protocol-agnostic workflows with onchain time-based triggers. No repetitive glue code or reliance on offchain infrastructure. Flow does it all natively onchain.
Flow Actions
Flow Actions are protocol-native, composable operations including swap, source, sink, flasher, and price oracle. Each action does one thing well, and together they form the foundation for multi-step workflows: full yield strategies, payment flows, and swap aggregators that run seamlessly across protocols.
Actions follow a shared standard, so developers don’t need to write custom glue code. Instead, they compose behavior from modular components, executed in a single atomic transaction.
New protocols can plug in by implementing a connector—no rewrites required. The result is a true “LEGO Blocks” framework for onchain finance, inspired by Unix piping.
Learn more in the Flow Action FLIP.
Source → Swap → Sink. All in one transaction.
Flow Agents
Flow Agents are onchain resources that run entirely within a Flow account. No pooled funds, no offchain logic, no relayers. Agents respond to native triggers like signed transactions, or scheduled transactions.
When triggered, an Agent executes a transaction previously composed. That means fully automated behavior. Secure, programmable, and self-owned.
For example an agent could run every Friday to rebalance stables and yield vaults across three protocols or route swap fees to a vault, yield farm them, and rebalance. All without a single user click. Execution runs fully automated onchain, without a backend or cron jobs.
With Agents, every account becomes an engine, with its own operating system for trustless execution. Agents can also schedule transactions to run in the future, including triggering themselves to run. Allowing for them to run autonomously executing their workflows. Learn more in the Scheduled Transaction FLIP.
Flow Agents bring automation onchain. Currently in web3, the options are offchain automation services like Chainlink, or a custom integration using your own infrastructure. For each of these, the disconnect from the chain opens up risks related to state changes, custody, and MEV. These risks make for a less efficient and effective automation layer than Flow Agents.
Why It Matters
Flow Actions and Agents unlock a new layer of developer leverage and protocol interoperability. Instead of writing custom logic for every integration, developers can now compose sophisticated workflows from reusable primitives. Swap, source, sink, flasher, and price oracle—stitched together across multiple protocols in a single atomic transaction.
This makes onchain UX faster, safer, and more programmable by default. Coordination happens where it should, at the protocol layer, free of bots and brittle glue code. Protocols become composable infrastructure. Accounts become autonomous engines.
ERC-20 and ERC-721 unlocked nouns. Actions and Agents unlock verbs.
Start building today with Flow Actions - https://developers.flow.com/tutorials/defi
