Validated use cases from Anthropic Engineering and production systems
Use Case
Pattern
Components
Multi-Agent Research
🦑 Orchestrator-Workers
🐔 Main Agent → Parallel 🐦 Subagents → Synthesis
Code Review Pipeline
🚂 Parallel + 🦑 Subagent
Security, Performance, Style reviewers
Multi-Locale Generation
🧬 Master-Clone + 🧙 Wizard
Primary → Variants in isolation
Personal Assistant
📚 Progressive Skills
Calendar, Email, Tasks routing
Customer Support
🚦 Routing + 🦑 Subagent
Triage → Specialized handlers
Data Migration
🧙 Wizard + 🖥️ Multi-Window
Phased with checkpoints
Pattern Selection by Use Case
If your use case involves...
Use Pattern
Multiple independent searches
🚂 Parallel Tool Calling
Specialized domain knowledge
🦑 Orchestrator-Workers
Same task on different data
🧬 Master-Clone
Critical/destructive operations
🧙 Wizard Workflows
Long-running workflows (>10 min)
🖥️ Multi-Window Context
External system orchestration
🎛️ Programmatic Orchestration
Intent-based capability loading
📚 Progressive Skills
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