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A pattern library distilled from hundreds of customer, partner and individual projects — spanning agentic and multi-agent systems, retrieval, reasoning, governance, and the classical ML foundations beneath them.

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Featured — The Agentic Series

The Agentic AI Blueprint: From Thinking to Acting
The enterprise adoption ladder — data foundation to multi-agent systems, in seven levels.
Agentic AI Pattern Explorer: Density, Capability Gaps & a Readiness Audit
Where the research weight sits, plus a live 12-point production readiness audit.
Agent Pattern Skills: A Catalog of 55 Agentic Architectural Patterns
The full catalog: 55 patterns across 7 chapters, each with problem, solution and code.
Download: 55 Agentic Pattern Skills for Multi-agent Systems
The same 55 patterns packaged as installable Claude Agent Skills — a free download.
Agentic Architectural Patterns: A Skills Portal & Simulator
Ten patterns as copy-paste system-prompt contracts, with diagrams and a runnable simulator.
The Fractal Chain-of-Thought (FCoT) Pattern
Reasoning as an aperture: make “deeper” measurable with the J⁺/J⁻ rubric and a hill-climb gate.
The Age of Emergent AI
Agentic Governance Maturity — six levels from prompting to a governed swarm.
Grammar-Oriented Object Design: An Orchestration Paradigm for Multi-Agent Systems and Agent Swarms
How pattern languages, SOA and DSLs form an orchestration grammar for agent swarms.

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Patterns curated by DeepContext LLC. Agentic patterns draw on Agentic Architectural Patterns for Building Multi-Agent Systems (Arsanjani & Bustos, Packt, 2026).

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AI Patterns consolidates common problem/solution pairs — patterns — for machine, deep, reinforcement, and generative AI, distilled from hundreds of customer, partner, and individual projects. The goal is practical: give practitioners a shared vocabulary and reusable building blocks for moving AI systems from experiments to production. The catalog spans two decades of architecture practice —… Continue reading About

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A complete directory of the pattern library — every article and reference page, grouped by topic. For the interactive, searchable version, use the Pattern Catalog Summary (all 56 agentic patterns), and if you are new to the series, start with the reading guide. Featured — The Agentic Series The Agentic AI Blueprint: From Thinking to… Continue reading AI Patterns

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