Agent Engineering

Not sure what will go here but start with resources.

• Linear - Agent Interaction Guidelines
• Anthropic - Building effective agents

Agent vs. Workflow

“Agent” is obviously a very overloaded term at this point. Most of what people refer to as agents are actually AI workflows.

• *workflow - has a clear start and end, a goal and a set of steps that it goes through.
• agent - works on open-ended tasks with no clear start and end, and the steps it uses to get to its goal are not explicitly defined.

Another way to think about it: agents decide how they reach their goal, where workflows follow a path decided by the programmeer.