claude-cookbooks/patterns/agents/README.md

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