Building effective agents
4.40T1 sourceAnthropic Engineering
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Published by Anthropic Engineering (T1 source). The original is at https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents.
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SummaryAnthropic shares lessons from working with dozens of teams building LLM agents, finding the most successful implementations use simple, composable patterns rather than complex frameworks, and draws an architectural distinction between workflows and agents.
Why it mattersA primary-source taxonomy separating workflows from agents with composable patterns; a reference many teams still cite when deciding where orchestration logic belongs.

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