claude-cookbooks/patterns/agents

Building Effective Agents Cookbook

Reference implementation for Building Effective Agents by Erik Schluntz and Barry Zhang.

This repository contains example minimal implementations of common agent workflows discussed in the blog:

• Basic Building Blocks
  • Prompt Chaining
  • Routing
  • Multi-LLM Parallelization
• Advanced Workflows
  • Orchestrator-Subagents
  • Evaluator-Optimizer

Getting Started

See the Jupyter notebooks for detailed examples:

• Basic Workflows
• Evaluator-Optimizer Workflow
• Orchestrator-Workers Workflow