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title: "Building Effective Agents Cookbook"
description: "Reference implementation for [Building Effective Agents](https://anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents) by Erik Schluntz and Barry Zhang."
type: skill
canonical_url: https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/readme-49
source: "Claudary"
difficulty: intermediate
author: "Claude Code Knowledge Pack"
date: 2026-07-10T11:36:34.744Z
license: CC-BY-4.0
attribution: "Building Effective Agents Cookbook — Claudary (https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/readme-49)"
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# Building Effective Agents Cookbook
Reference implementation for [Building Effective Agents](https://anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents) by Erik Schluntz and Barry Zhang.

## Overview

# Building Effective Agents Cookbook

Reference implementation for [Building Effective Agents](https://anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents) by Erik Schluntz and Barry Zhang.

This repository contains example minimal implementations of common agent workflows discussed in the blog:

- Basic Building Blocks
  - Prompt Chaining
  - Routing
  - Multi-LLM Parallelization
- Advanced Workflows
  - Orchestrator-Subagents
  - Evaluator-Optimizer

## Getting Started
See the Jupyter notebooks for detailed examples:

- [Basic Workflows](basic_workflows.ipynb)
- [Evaluator-Optimizer Workflow](evaluator_optimizer.ipynb) 
- [Orchestrator-Workers Workflow](orchestrator_workers.ipynb)

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