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        <title><![CDATA[Awesome Agentic Patterns]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[New and updated AI agent design patterns.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[402-First Machine Payments (Price-Before-Work Tool Purchases)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Server returns an HTTP 402 price quote before doing work, and the agent pays the exact amount only if it fits its budget cap]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/402-first-machine-payments</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[payments]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[micropayments]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[x402]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[http-402]]></category>
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            <category><![CDATA[tool-use]]></category>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Classify-Then-Act for Background Agents]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sorts each task into has-default, needs-intent, or out-of-scope, builds only has-default work in a sandbox, and queues it for human review]]></description>
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            <category><![CDATA[background-agents]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[task-triage]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[sandboxed-build]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[review-queue]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[autonomy-boundary]]></category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Design-Time File Partition as Concurrency Control]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Each task declares every path it will write; overlapping tasks get a blocking dependency so only disjoint work runs at once on a shared checkout]]></description>
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            <category><![CDATA[multi-agent]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[concurrency]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[decomposition]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[task-queue]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[shared-checkout]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[headless]]></category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Evidence Questions, Not Verdict Questions]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Never ask the model for allow/ask/block. Ask it narrow, typed, observational questions and let code reduce the answers to the verdict, because the collapsed question is the low-confidence one.]]></description>
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            <category><![CDATA[Security & Safety]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[policy-authoring]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[admission-control]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[decomposition]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[calibration]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[confidence]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[guard-rails]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[determinism]]></category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Non-Generative Judgment Routing with Typed Escalation]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sends decision-only loop steps as batched typed questions to a non-generative judgment model and escalates what it cannot answer back to the LLM]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/non-generative-judgment-routing</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Orchestration & Control]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[routing]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[latency]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[structured-outputs]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[classification]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[escalation]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[orchestration]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[agent-loops]]></category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[One OS User per Agent]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Give each long-lived agent its own OS user account and a templated init-system unit, so identity, supervision and privilege come from the host instead of from a per-agent container.]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/one-os-user-per-agent</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Security & Safety]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[isolation]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[multi-agent]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[systemd]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[process-identity]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[least-privilege]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[long-running-agents]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[audit-trail]]></category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Out-of-Process Provider-Boundary Replay]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Capture an agent run at the model-provider HTTP boundary from outside the process, then serve those bytes back so the agent re-executes its own logic with no provider call.]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/out-of-process-provider-boundary-replay</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Reliability & Eval]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[record-replay]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[determinism]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[regression-testing]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[http-boundary]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[offline]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[instrumentation-free]]></category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Precomputed Code Graph Lookup]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Answer an agent's structural code questions from a precomputed, deterministic graph queried by intent-shaped verbs, instead of a retrieval-time search-and-read loop.]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/precomputed-code-graph-lookup</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Tool Use & Environment]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[code-graph]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[static-analysis]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[precomputed-index]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[impact-analysis]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[deterministic]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[tree-sitter]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[tool-design]]></category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Skill Activation as a Precision/Recall Measurement]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Measures skill routing as classification with a labelled prompt dataset, per-skill precision and recall, and CI thresholds that fail the build]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/skill-activation-as-precision-recall</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[evals]]></category>
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            <category><![CDATA[routing]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[precision-recall]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[classification]]></category>
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            <category><![CDATA[regression-testing]]></category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tier Auto-Apply by Mechanical Impact]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Decides which self-proposed changes auto-apply by matching the real diff's file paths and change kinds against a trusted tier table, not by finding text]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/tier-auto-apply-by-mechanical-impact</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[auto-apply]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[tiered-autonomy]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[self-improving-agent]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[findings-triage]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[reversibility]]></category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cross-Domain Agent Conflict Resolution]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A coordination layer that cross-references recommendations from independent domain agents, detects conflicts on shared resources, and resolves them through policy-as-code.]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/cross-domain-agent-conflict-resolution</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[multi-agent]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[conflict-resolution]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[policy-as-code]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[governance]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[orchestration]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[drift-detection]]></category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Deterministic Grader in the Loop]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Replace the LLM-as-judge in an agent's self-review loop with a deterministic scorer that returns the raw counts behind each sub-score, so the agent has something specific to fix.]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/deterministic-grader-in-the-loop</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Feedback Loops]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[feedback-loop]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[self-critique]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[evaluation]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[determinism]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[llm-as-judge]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[reproducibility]]></category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dual-Rail Message Delivery]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sends every inter-agent message on two independent channels through one entry point, alerts when the rails diverge, and requires ACKs to confirm completion]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/dual-rail-message-delivery</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Orchestration & Control]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[multi-agent]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[coordination]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[message-bus]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[redundancy]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[fault-detection]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[human-in-the-loop]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[distributed-systems]]></category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Evidence-Layered Evaluation for Interactive Agents]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Scores interactive agent runs on a task outcome assertion and links each result to layered evidence: actions, screenshots, replays, network, and messages]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/evidence-layered-evaluation-for-interactive-agents</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Reliability & Eval]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[evaluation]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[browser-agents]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[computer-use]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[reproducibility]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[observability]]></category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Exact-Action Authorization Binding]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Bind a short-lived approval to the complete action presented to the reviewer, then rederive and compare that identity at the acting boundary before execution.]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/exact-action-authorization-binding</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Security & Safety]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[authorization]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[approval]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[tool-use]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[action-binding]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[TOCTOU]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[receipts]]></category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Filesystem-Mediated Host Delegation]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Lets a sandboxed agent write request files to a shared spool directory that a host daemon runs against a whitelist, with idempotent results the agent polls for]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/filesystem-mediated-host-delegation</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Tool Use & Environment]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[sandbox-escape]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[host-execution]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[async-rpc]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[idempotency]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[spool-directory]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[durability]]></category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Own-Check Fault Injection]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Plant a controlled fault inside a running agent pipeline and score whether the pipeline's own checks emit a detection act, keeping detected, reacted and recovered as separate verdicts.]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/own-check-fault-injection</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[fault-injection]]></category>
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            <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[self-verification]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[guardrails]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[chaos-engineering]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[observability]]></category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rendered UI Finish Gate]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Verify an agent-built interface against its intended design contract, required states, interaction semantics, and rendered output before merging.]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/rendered-ui-finish-gate</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Feedback Loops]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[ui-quality]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[frontend]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[coding-agents]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[verification]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[design-systems]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[feedback-loops]]></category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Persistent Test Memory Feedback Loop]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Preserve validated test lessons so an agent can reuse successful paths, recognize recurring failures, and retire stale knowledge.]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/persistent-test-memory-feedback-loop</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Learning & Adaptation]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[testing-agents]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[persistent-memory]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[feedback-loop]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[self-healing]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[regression-testing]]></category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Consequence-Family Coverage Audit]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Audit an agent's risk policy by enumerating families of consequence and asking which rule covers each, because a hand-written risk list reliably encodes one family and stays silent on the rest]]></description>
            <link>https://agentic-patterns.com/patterns/consequence-family-coverage-audit</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[risk-classification]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[policy-authoring]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[coverage-testing]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[admission-control]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[blind-spots]]></category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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