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Agentic Pattern
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Repeatable architectural patterns for orchestrating agent reasoning, action, and feedback loops.
Strata: L0
Axes: Orchestration
Status: seed
Explainer
Agentic patterns are proven choreographies of reasoning → planning → execution → evaluation. Examples include ReAct (Reasoning + Acting), Chain-of-Thought (CoT), Self-Ask, Tree-of-Thought, and multi-agent debate. A pattern defines the structure of the control loop and the format of prompts, but is agnostic to the underlying model or tools. Patterns are composable — they can be nested or sequenced to build complex multi-stage pipelines.
Anti-Patterns
- Designing orchestration logic ad-hoc for each new task duplicates effort, introduces subtle bugs, and makes it impossible to compare or optimize approaches.
Mitigations
- Identify and document repeatable patterns (ReAct, CoT, debate, retrieval loops) and encode them as reusable, testable orchestration templates.