2 posts tagged with "Agentic Patterns"

How can we mitigate issues like prompt injection, governance, and plain old integration challenges when using agents for automation? We've helped our customers overcome these problems with the Decision Workers pattern, which separates the concerns of intelligence and orchestration. In this pattern, LittleHorse WfSpecs achieve reliable and secure orchestration while Decision Workers (Agents with read-only tool access) provide the intelligence.

Just how much decision power should you give your agents in a business process? On one extreme, AI hype-artists claim that agents should stitch together all API's and "figure out your business process for you" without any orchestrator. On the other extreme, detractors claim that agents should not be allowed to make decisions without human oversight. In reality, by giving agents proper guardrails you can maximize user experience intelligence while minimizing mistakes (and even save tokens while you're at it!).