Authors, Papers and Citations
Touba is a research and engineering project dedicated to Probabilistic Agentic Programming (PAP) and bounded agentic orchestration.
Official Touba Labs contact: contact@touba-labs.com. Use this address for questions about Touba, its documentation or adoption. The authors' academic contacts are listed below.
Timeline
- Fall 2025: project start around agentic programming with explicit responsibility and bounded autonomy.
- Winter 2026: research phase on agent-oriented programming, BDI agents, LLM tool-use systems and agentic risk governance.
- Winter 2026: Probabilistic Agentic Programming: A Foundational Paradigm for Governed Autonomy formalizes PAP.
- Summer 2026: Responsibility Boundaries for Agentic Systems: A Comparative Evaluation of Probabilistic Agentic Programming positions PAP against existing paradigms and frameworks.
- Autumn 2026: development and validation of the Touba tools.
- Upcoming: release of the Touba language.
Authors
| Author | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Khadim Lo | Doctoral researcher in computer engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, LSSI, School of Engineering, UQTR; principal maintainer of the public repositories | khadim.lo@uqtr.ca |
| Jean-Sébastien Dessureault | Professor in artificial intelligence, Mathematics and Computer Science, LSSI, UQTR; research director | jean-sebastien.dessureault@uqtr.ca |
| Soukaina Alaoui Ismaili | Doctoral researcher in computer engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, LSSI, School of Engineering, UQTR | soukaina.alaoui.ismaili@uqtr.ca |
The Team page introduces the researchers and their contacts.
Academic correspondence related to Touba, PAP and the associated publications can be addressed to the contacts above.
Scientific Papers
| Axis | Paper | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PAP | Responsibility Boundaries for Agentic Systems: A Comparative Evaluation of Probabilistic Agentic Programming | arXiv preprint |
The responsibility boundaries preprint is available at arXiv:2610.33312, with its PDF.
Cite the Documentation
Khadim Lo, Jean-Sébastien Dessureault and Soukaina Alaoui Ismaili. Touba: Thinking Orchestration Using Bounded Agency. Touba Documentation, 2026.
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Cite the Paper
Khadim Lo, Soukaina Alaoui Ismaili and Jean-Sébastien Dessureault. Responsibility Boundaries for Agentic Systems: A Comparative Evaluation of Probabilistic Agentic Programming. arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.33312, 2026.
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year = {2026},
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url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.33312}
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