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Agentic AI Design Patterns (2026 Edition)
Chris Harper
1 min read
Jun 2, 2026
AI
Best Practices
LLM
Practical patterns for building reliable AI agents: agent prompts must handle state persistence across many LLM calls, specify tool-selection logic, define error-recovery protocols, and set hard operational boundaries. The key design insight: build agent-ready interfaces with clear filters, structured results, and parseable output formats. Agents fail most often at the interface boundary, not the reasoning step.