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The workflow-vs-agent decision and the seven Anthropic building-block patterns (augmented LLM, prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator-workers, evaluator-optimizer, autonomous agent). Gives the PM the vocabulary and decision tree to scope an AI feature's control flow BEFORE the engineering spec exists — and the discipline to not build an agent when a workflow suffices. Used by ai-prompt-architect and architect.
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# Agent Product Patterns — workflow vs agent, and the building blocks The most expensive mistake in AI product design is building an **autonomous agent** when a **workflow** would have been cheaper, faster, more predictable, and easier to debug. Anthropic's central finding from production deployments: the most successful implementations use **simple, composable patterns — not complex frameworks or fully autonomous agents.** The PM's job here is to match the *minimum control mechanism* to the *observed failure mode*. Every step up the complexity ladder buys flexibility at the cost of latency, money, and debuggability — so you climb only when the rung below demonstrably fails. This skill gives you the vocabulary to make that call *before* the spec is written, so engineering builds the right shape the first time. ## 1. The core distinction: workflow vs agent Anthropic draws one line that governs everything else: - **Workflow** — an LLM (and tools) orchestrated through **predefined code paths.** The control flow is written by you, in code. The LLM fills in the cognitive steps, but *what happens next* is decided by your program. …
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vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
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