{"id":"building-effective-agents","name":"Building effective agents","url":"https://wunderlust.xyz/r/building-effective-agents","category":"guides","category_label":"Guides & reading","tags":["learning"],"short":"Anthropic article on patterns for workflows and agents","what":"An Anthropic engineering article that distinguishes workflows (predefined code paths) from agents (LLMs that direct their own process) and describes the patterns for each.","uses":"For deciding when to use a workflow or an agent and how to structure it, starting from the simplest option.","benefits":["Describes five workflows: prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator-workers and evaluator-optimizer","Recommends starting with the simplest solution and adding complexity only when it improves the result","Gives guidance on documenting and testing tools with the same care as prompts"],"caveats":["Published in 2024; its recommendations may have evolved."],"links":{"official":"https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents"},"image":"https://wunderlust.xyz/media/building-effective-agents-poster.jpg","video":"https://wunderlust.xyz/media/building-effective-agents.webm","share_image":"https://wunderlust.xyz/og/r/building-effective-agents.jpg","similar":["anthropic-prompt-engineering","google-whitepapers-kaggle","ben-ai-canal","cc-for-pms","50-design-styles-for-better-prompting","printmag"],"added_on":"2026-11-05","pt":{"name":"Building effective agents","short":"Artigo da Anthropic com padrões de workflows e agentes","what":"Artigo de engenharia da Anthropic que distingue workflows (caminhos de código predefinidos) de agentes (LLMs que dirigem o próprio processo) e descreve os padrões de cada um.","uses":"Para decidir quando usar um workflow ou um agente e como estruturá-lo, partindo do mais simples.","benefits":["Descreve cinco workflows: encadeamento de prompts, roteamento, paralelização, orquestrador-workers e avaliador-otimizador","Recomenda começar pela solução mais simples e só somar complexidade quando melhora o resultado","Dá orientações para documentar e testar ferramentas com o mesmo cuidado dos prompts"],"caveats":["Publicado em 2024; as recomendações podem ter evoluído."]},"schema_version":1}