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Building Effective Agents by Anthropic Engineering

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Building Effective Agents

Anthropic Engineering

An engineering perspective on choosing simple workflows before adding autonomous loops, tools, and coordination.

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Why it matters

It gives teams a useful decision framework for avoiding complexity that cannot be evaluated or operated.

First practical move

Write down the simplest workflow that could solve the task before designing an agent loop.

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Technical product teams

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