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Agent Design Paradigms
Agent Design Paradigms
Long-lived design paradigms for Agent systems, from Context Manager, tool boundaries, memory governance, collaboration isolation, to runtime control.
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Read in order to move from model fundamentals into an engineering view of agents and harnesses.
- 01 Guide to the Agent Design Paradigms Series Guide A guide to stable Agent system design paradigms: context, memory, tools, permissions, collaboration, compaction, recovery, and auditable execution.
- 02 Context Manager Paradigm: The Agent Attention Operating System Upgrade Agent context from concatenated messages[] into an attention governance layer built from event facts, state projection, long-term memory, external evidence, tool environment, and system policy.
- 03 Long-Term Memory and Self-Optimization for Agents Turn an Agent's experience into traceable memory, reusable skills, and testable optimizations, then use evaluation, gradual rollout, and rollback to make the Agent improve steadily.
- 04 Tool Manager Paradigm: The Agent Action Operating System Upgrade an Agent tool system from a function registry into an action governance layer around capability, intent, permission, credentials, sandboxing, execution, side effects, and auditability.
- 05 Agent Team Task Assignment and Communication Protocols Move Agent Team design beyond topology diagrams into a collaboration runtime for task assignment, leases, structured communication, evidence return, conflict handling, and verified merge.