Design Patterns Behind AI Agents

The recurring architectures underneath today’s agent frameworks and orchestration stacks

One of the more confusing parts of the current agent ecosystem is that people often talk about frameworks, agents, orchestration, and autonomy as if they all mean the same thing.

However, most agentic systems tend to follow a small number of recurring design patterns. The differences usually come down to how an agent reasons, how it plans tasks, how it i…