7 Agentic Patterns: Picking the wrong one breaks your workflow
mdancho84 · x · 2026-09-01
The post outlines 7 essential agentic architecture patterns and their use cases:
- Parallel: Run simultaneously for independent tasks (faster).
- Sequential: Run in order for dependent steps (more reliable).
- Loop: Repeat until a condition is met (for retries/quality checks).
- Router: Distribute tasks based on input (for varied inputs).
- Aggregator: Synthesize multiple inputs into one output.
- Network: Agents communicate freely (for complex reasoning).
- Hierarchical: A planner coordinates workers (for scaling).
The author notes that the Hierarchical pattern enabled Cursor to autonomously write 1 million lines of code in a week.
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