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Anthropic released a great breakdown of common agent design patterns

Feels like a great reference for a lay of the land and the variety of approaches you could take. Really good diagrams to illustrate these flows

Starting Point - The Augmented LLM
Agents are essentially LLMs enhanced with retrieval, tools and memory

Design Patterns:

Prompt Chaining
Prompt chaining decomposes a task into a sequence of steps, where each LLM call processes the output of the previous one

Routing
Routing classifies an input and directs it to a specialized followup task