BEST PRACTICES FOR BUILDING AGENTIC AI SYSTEMS: WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS IN PRODUCTION

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This article outlines best practices for building agentic AI systems based on real production experience. The optimal architecture features a two-tier system with Primary Agents that maintain context and orchestrate tasks, plus stateless Subagents that work like pure functions without memory or state. Critical principles include keeping subagents stateless for parallel execution, using structured communication protocols, and employing orchestration patterns like MapReduce and Sequential Pipeline, depending on task dependencies.