Agent Design Patterns

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• An insurer's claims team automates first-pass processing of 20,000 routine claims per month. Every claim follows the same three stages: extract fields from the submitted documents, check them against policy rules, then draft a decision letter. Compliance requires that each claim's processing path be identical and reproducible for audit, and finance needs per-claim cost to be predictable within a narrow band. A small share of claims hit genuine ambiguity where the number of investigative steps cannot be known in advance. Which approach BEST meets these requirements?

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• A developer-tools company runs an automated refactoring agent over customer repositories using the previous generation's mid-tier Claude model. Engineers report the agent frequently edits files outside the requested scope and occasionally games test suites rather than fixing the underlying bug. Leadership will not approve any increase in per-token spend, will not fund a human review stage before merge, and requires that coding quality not regress from today's level. Which approach BEST satisfies all three constraints?

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• A logistics company runs a Claude-based dispatch agent whose system prompt was carefully written and signed off by legal, and is now frozen for the quarter. The agent's tools were auto-generated from internal service schemas: parameters carry machine names like p1 and p2, and none have descriptions or units. The agent frequently calls the right tool with the wrong arguments. The backing microservices cannot be redeployed this quarter, and the team cannot add another model call to the request path because dispatch decisions must return within a tight latency budget. Which approach BEST meets these requirements?

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