Building Effective AI Agents (Anthropic)

Anthropic engineering essay (Dec 19, 2024) on agent design patterns: workflows vs. agents, and when to use simple composable patterns.

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Information

Website

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents

Pricing

free

Maintainer

Anthropic

Added

2026-10-02

Updated

2026-10-02

Last verified

2026-10-02

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• guide
• agent-design
• patterns

Related

• Claude Code: Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and integrates with dev tools; available in terminal, IDE, desktop and browser.

Sources

• https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents

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