Agent Design Patterns — Design skill for Claude Code

Agent Design Patterns

**A 7×6 framework for agent architecture. 28 patterns, each placed at a coordinate, each with runnable code and a verified engineering slice from real production codebases.**

*The model spends. The harness budgets. This repo is the vocabulary you can put in your project tomorrow.*

[简体中文 README](README.zh-CN.md) · [**Pattern Docs**](https://adpsagent.com/zh/patterns/) · [**Manning · *Designing AI Agents***](https://hubs.la/Q04hCsH10) · [Paper · arXiv:2605.13850](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13850) · [极客时间专栏](https://time.geekbang.org/) · [Newsletter](https://agentpatterns.substack.com) · [Author site](https://kage-ai.com)

**📖 Browse the full pattern documentation** — every pattern with its whitepaper, organized by cognitive function, with a left-rail index: **[adpsagent.com/zh/patterns](https://adpsagent.com/zh/patterns/)**. Enterprise case studies (蓝皮书) live at [adpsagent.com/zh/cases](https://adpsagent.com/zh/cases/).

**Looking for the full Argus running example as one evolving codebase, organized by book chapter?** See the companion repo [**huangjia2019/designing-ai-agents**](https://github.com/huangjia2019/designing-ai-agents) — Argus grows module by module from Ch2 to Ch10, with each chapter's `patterns/` + `argus/` side by side. That repo follows the book's narrative; this repo is the standalone pattern catalog.

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The book

**[*Designing AI Agents*](https://hubs.la/Q04hCsH10)** — the design-pattern catalogue for production AI agents. (Manning)

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The framework comes from a paper

[](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13850)

The two-axis framework, the 27 named patterns, and the five pattern-selection laws are introduced in **[A Two-Dimensional Framework for AI Agent Design Patterns