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  "id": "building-effective-agents",
  "name": "Building Effective AI Agents (Anthropic)",
  "category": "information",
  "summary": "Anthropic engineering essay (Dec 19, 2024) on agent design patterns: workflows vs. agents, and when to use simple composable patterns.",
  "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents",
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  "pricing": "free",
  "related": [
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  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-02",
  "updated": "2026-10-02",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-02",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Anthropic",
  "longform": [],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/building-effective-agents/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/building-effective-agents.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/building-effective-agents.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/information/building-effective-agents.json"
  }
}