agent-patterns
Agent Patterns Orchestration Skill
This skill implements AI agent patterns and workflows from Anthropic's "Building Effective Agents" engineering guide. It uses modular resources to help you select, design, and implement the right patterns for your needs.
Quick Reference: Which Pattern Do I Need?
| Task Characteristics | Best Pattern(s) | Load Resource |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed sequential steps, each requires different handling | Prompt Chaining | core-patterns.md |
| Input falls into distinct categories | Routing | core-patterns.md |
| Independent tasks to run in parallel | Parallelization (Sectioning) | core-patterns.md |
| Same task multiple times for robustness/consensus | Parallelization (Voting) | core-patterns.md |
| Unpredictable subtasks, determine at runtime | Orchestrator-Workers | dynamic-orchestration.md |
| Fully open-ended exploration needed | Autonomous Agents | dynamic-orchestration.md |
| Need iterative quality improvement | Evaluator-Optimizer | iterative-refinement.md |
| Multiple pattern combination needed | See decision table | pattern-combinations.md |
| Language-specific implementation | Choose language | language-implementation.md |
| Tool design/optimization | Interface design | tool-design.md |
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