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February 2026
The Agentic Design Library as published in February 2026 — preserved exactly as it appeared on the homepage that month. Reading list of 9 essay-style pieces.
Simon Willison
February 23, 2026
Agentic Engineering Patterns
Simon Willison
Field guide to coding practices, prompt patterns, and review workflows for getting reliable results out of agent-assisted development. Updated continuously.
patternscoding agentsarXiv
February 12, 2026
The 2025 AI Agent Index
AI Agent Index Project
Documentation of 30 state-of-the-art AI agents — their origins, design, capabilities, ecosystem, and safety features. The most thorough single survey of the production-agent landscape.
researchsurveyarXiv
February 8, 2026
LLM-Enabled Multi-Agent Systems: Empirical Evaluation and Emerging Design Patterns
Peer-reviewed paper
Empirical study of LLM-enabled multi-agent systems. Surfaces emerging design patterns and the paradigms that hold up under real workloads.
researchmulti-agentLangChain
February 1, 2026
Agentic Engineering: How Swarms of AI Agents Are Redefining Software Engineering
LangChain Team
How multi-agent coordination patterns are restructuring software engineering teams around AI. Architecture trade-offs between single-agent and swarm approaches.
multi-agentarchitectureVoltAgent
January 5, 2026
Awesome AI Agent Papers
VoltAgent Maintainers
Curated repository of 2026 agent research papers organized by topic: agent engineering, memory, evaluation, workflows, autonomous systems.
curationresearchLatent Space
December 15, 2025
Software 3.0: Software in the Age of AI
Andrej Karpathy (talk transcript)
Karpathy's follow-up to Software 2.0: three eras of software (1.0 hand-written, 2.0 trained, 3.0 prompted). Natural language as the new programming surface; intent specification as the new skill.
frameworkphilosophyagentic engineeringOne Useful Thing
November 20, 2025
On Working with Wizards
Ethan Mollick
The shift from co-intelligence (back-and-forth prompting) to delegated work — the new era of giving agents a task and reviewing the result. From partner to audience, collaboration to conjuring.
philosophyco-intelligenceAhead of AI
October 8, 2025
Components of a Coding Agent
Sebastian Raschka
Long-form technical essay on how production coding agents are built: harness, tools, memory, repo context, and how the pieces compose. Six building blocks of a coding agent, with the harness as the binding constraint.
technicalagent harnesscoding agentsAnthropic
December 19, 2024
Building Effective AI Agents
Anthropic Research
Research-page companion to the engineering essay. Surveys the broader landscape of agent design choices and where simple patterns succeed against complex frameworks.
design patternsresearch