Agent patterns
Agent pattern decks
Short visual guides to designing AI agents people can actually trust. Each one takes a single problem, a handover, a plan preview, an agent register, and works it through in ten or so slides you can read in a couple of minutes.
They draw on the agent patterns library, a set of forty-one interaction patterns for agent products. Free to download, nothing to sign up for.
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Eight ways agent products lose trust
Failure patterns that turn up across shipped products and the 2026 research, and the one change that does most: make the agent hand back receipts.
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The six stages of agent handover
Brief, plan, run, check, verify, learn. What each stage is for, and which two are the ones people notice are missing.
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Five minutes before the agent starts
What to agree before an agent acts: the plan preview in plain words, and the four screens that sit on top of it.
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Reading a crowd of agents
What a board of parallel runs has to show, and why the one row waiting on a person belongs at the top of it.
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Your newest teammate has a spend cap
An agent register: the owner, who may task it, what it is allowed to write, and the cap. The line everything else hangs off.
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Can an agent use your product?
What an agent actually reads on a checkout page, and why publishing an llms.txt is the cheapest way to find out who is already arriving that way.