Agent Design Patterns: 7 curated resources
Curated material on agent design patterns within agents and harnesses.
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A practical guide to building agents (PDF)
by OpenAI
Plain-language foundations: when to build an agent, orchestration, guardrails.
Building Effective AI Agents
by Anthropic
Workflows vs agents and the core patterns; argues to start simple. Readable without code.
AI Agents Course
by Hugging Face
Free course from 'what is an agent' to building one.
Agents
by Chip Huyen
Long-form essay on tools, planning, failure modes and evaluating agents.
12-Factor Agents
Principles for agents that hold up in production.
LLM Powered Autonomous Agents
by Lilian Weng
Classic overview of planning, memory and tool use in agents.
ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
Research on combining reasoning with environment actions, a useful reference for agent-loop design.