提出系统化框架,让智能体设计更可靠可复用。
Agentic Design Patterns: A System-Theoretic Framework
- 将智能体拆解为五个交互功能模块,构建理论基础
- 提炼12种可复用设计模式,解决常见智能体问题
- 适合研究与工程团队统一智能体设计语言
随着基础模型的发展,智能体系统日益受到关注,但其固有的幻觉和推理能力不足,加之设计常呈随意性,导致应用不可靠且脆弱。现有对智能体设计模式的归纳往往缺乏严谨的系统理论基础,多为高层次或便利性分类,难以落地。本文填补这一空白,提出一种工程化智能体的原理性方法:首先构建一个系统理论框架,将智能体系统分解为五个核心、相互作用的功能子系统——推理与世界模型、感知与对齐、行动执行、学习与适应、多智能体通信;其次,基于该架构并直接映射到智能体挑战的完整分类,提出12种设计模式。这些模式分为基础型、认知与决策型、执行与交互型、自适应与学习型四类,提供可复用的结构性解决方案。通过在ReAct框架上的案例研究,验证了该框架能有效修正系统性架构缺陷。本工作为研究人员与工程师提供了标准化的设计语言与结构化方法,推动智能体系统向模块化、可理解、高可靠方向发展。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
With the development of foundation model (FM), agentic AI systems are getting more attention, yet their inherent issues like hallucination and poor reasoning, coupled with the frequent ad-hoc nature of system design, lead to unreliable and brittle applications. Existing efforts to characterise agentic design patterns often lack a rigorous systems-theoretic foundation, resulting in high-level or convenience-based taxonomies that are difficult to implement. This paper addresses this gap by introducing a principled methodology for engineering robust AI agents. We propose two primary contributions: first, a novel system-theoretic framework that deconstructs an agentic AI system into five core, interacting functional subsystems: Reasoning & World Model, Perception & Grounding, Action Execution, Learning & Adaptation, and Inter-Agent Communication. Second, derived from this architecture and directly mapped to a comprehensive taxonomy of agentic challenges, we present a collection of 12 agentic design patterns. These patterns - categorised as Foundational, Cognitive & Decisional, Execution & Interaction, and Adaptive & Learning - offer reusable, structural solutions to recurring problems in agent design. The utility of the framework is demonstrated by a case study on the ReAct framework, showing how the proposed patterns can rectify systemic architectural deficiencies. This work provides a foundational language and a structured methodology to standardise agentic design communication among researchers and engineers, leading to more modular, understandable, and reliable autonomous systems.
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