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Designing AI Agents — AI skill for Claude Code

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Companion code for 'Designing AI Agents' (Manning, 2027) — 27 agent design patterns, organized by the 7 cognitive modules.

How to install Designing AI Agents

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open huangjia2019/designing-ai-agents and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Designing AI Agents does

Companion code for 'Designing AI Agents' (Manning, 2027) — 27 agent design patterns, organized by the 7 cognitive modules. Chapters 1–5 available.

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README

Designing AI Agents — Source Code

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

This repository is the official source code for the book. It contains two tracks living side by side inside each chapter:

argus/ — Argus, the running-example PR-review agent, evolves cumulatively from Ch2 to Ch10. Each chapter adds one cognitive module and ships a self-contained snapshot that imports as from argus import ... so the reader runs the chapter's Argus directly: python -m argus.cli --project .
patterns/ — independent pattern demos for everything the chapter introduces. Not every pattern integrates into Argus. Those patterns live here as runnable references.

中文版：[README.zh-CN.md](README.zh-CN.md)

Need a separate **pattern-only catalog organized by the two-axis matrix instead of by chapter?** See [**huangjia2019/agent-design-patterns**](https://github.com/huangjia2019/agent-design-patterns) (ADPS asset, not part of the book).

Argus evolution at a glance

Chapter	Argus +=	Module added	What you can run
Ch2 architecture	single-pass PRA loop	`argus/core.py`	(seed; one LLM call)
Ch3 perception	+ gather & triage code context	`argus/perception.py`	`python -m argus.cli`
Ch4 memory	+ cross-session memory (RAG)	`argus/memory.py`	`... --project myapp`
Ch5 reasoning	+ complexity-routed CoT	`argus/reasoning.py`	tier=simple/moderate/complex
Ch6 action	+ tool dispatch + Guardrail Sandwich	`argus/action.py`	lint / test / fix_apply
Ch7 reflection	+ critic loop + skill library