protologue

Agentic Workflow

Also called LLM workflow.

An agentic workflow is a system in which language models and tools are orchestrated through predefined code paths, as opposed to an agent that chooses its own steps.

Description

Common workflow patterns include prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator-workers, and evaluator-optimizer loops. Workflows are generally preferred when a task can be cleanly decomposed in advance.

Sources

  1. Anthropic (2024). Building effective agents.

Cite this entry

Protologue. (2026). Agentic Workflow. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0064). https://protologue.com/t/agentic-workflow/

BibTeX
@misc{protologue_agentic_workflow,
  title = {Agentic Workflow},
  author = {{Protologue}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques, v1.0.0},
  note = {Entry PTL-0064},
  url = {https://protologue.com/t/agentic-workflow/}
}

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