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nw-design-patterns from nwave-ai/nwave is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nwave-ai/nwave
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nWave/skills/nw-design-patterns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260320.d98f3cb, committed Mar 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 17, 2026
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- 3,871 bytes
- Repository stars
- 633
- License
- MIT
7 agentic design patterns with decision tree for choosing the right pattern for each agent type.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Agentic Design Patterns
## Pattern Decision Tree
```
Is the agent doing a single focused task?
YES -> Does it need self-evaluation?
YES -> Reflection
NO -> ReAct (default for most agents)
NO -> Is it coordinating multiple agents?
YES -> Are tasks independent?
YES -> Parallel Orchestration
NO -> Are tasks sequential with dependencies?
YES -> Sequential Orchestration
NO -> Hierarchical (supervisor + workers)
NO -> Is it routing to one of several specialists?
YES -> Router
NO -> Does it need structured task decomposition?
YES -> Planning
NO -> ReAct (default)
```
## 1. ReAct (Reason + Act)
General-purpose agents needing tool calling and iterative problem-solving.
**Loop**: Reason -> Select/execute action -> Observe result -> Repeat until done.
**When**: Default pattern. Most specialist agents.
**Examples**: software-crafter, researcher, troubleshooter.
## 2. Reflection
Agent must evaluate and iteratively improve its own output.
**Loop**: Generate -> Review against criteria -> Identify gaps -> Refine -> Validate threshold met.
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How to install
mdr add nwave-ai/nwave/nw-design-patterns@sha256:b7bfb731708da9c4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260320.d98f3cb, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
nwave-ai/nwave · 633 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
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