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Glossary: AI Agents Basics

Workflow patterns

Also written: prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator-workers, evaluator-optimizer

Anthropic's five workflow designs: prompt chaining (fixed calls in sequence), routing (sort the input, then send it down the matching path), parallelization (several calls at once), orchestrator-workers (one call splits the job) and evaluator-optimizer (one call writes, another grades, repeat).

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