Agent Prompt Patterns Battle-tested patterns for agents that ship, not agents that demo. If your agent works in a live-fire notebook but breaks in production, you have a demo, not an agent. --- When to Use - Designing a new agent's behavioral rules and operating manual - An agent is hallucinating completions, skipping steps, or claiming work it didn't do - Building multi-agent pipelines where output quality compounds (or collapses) - Setting up human-in-the-loop approval tiers for different risk levels - Enforcing reliability in automated workflows (cron jobs, scheduled tasks, pipelines) - Wr…