Building Effective AI Agents (Anthropic, 2024)¶
Reference
Citation: Anthropic. "Building Effective AI Agents" (Engineering, 2024). Type: guidance. Link: anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents.
What it is¶
Vendor engineering guidance on when and how to build agentic systems. It distinguishes workflows (predefined paths) from agents (model-driven control) and advises starting with the simplest approach that works.
Role in the record¶
- Grounds BP01: find the simplest solution and add agentic complexity only when the task needs flexible, model-driven decisions at scale; agents trade latency and cost for task performance, and a single optimised call is often enough.
Atom-level for/against detail and quotes are in the provenance data
(assets/provenance.yml), keyed by practice atom.