Agentic Workflow Patterns

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Overview

Create docs/WORKFLOWS_STANDARDS.md — agentic workflow patterns, orchestration, and best practices for multi-agent execution.

Research & Content Creation

Planning Reference:

• PLAN-EXPANDED.md § 4. WORKFLOWS_STANDARDS.md

Research Prompt:

Document agentic workflow standards. Research and create:

1. Shared workflows — Portable, reusable multi-agent orchestration (vs. GitHub Actions)
2. Use cases — Fan-out, pipeline, adversarial verification, multi-modal sweep patterns
3. Folder structure — workflows/{name}.js pattern
4. Workflow anatomy — meta, phases, agent spawning
5. Orchestration patterns:
   • Sequential execution
   • Parallel execution (with barriers)
   • Pipeline (fan-out/fan-in)
   • Loop patterns (loop-until-dry, loop-until-budget)
6. Best practices:
   • Token budget awareness
   • Error handling & resilience
   • Logging & observability
7. Real examples — Reference existing workflows from workflows/ folder
8. Composition — How agents invoke workflows

Mermaid diagrams (3+ required):

• Workflow execution patterns: sequential vs. parallel vs. pipeline
• Orchestration decision tree: which pattern for each use case
• Budget-aware loop pattern

Definition of Ready

• Planning reviewed
• Real workflow examples identified from repo
• Anthropic documentation reviewed (Agent SDK)

Definition of Done

• docs/WORKFLOWS_STANDARDS.md created
• 3+ Mermaid diagrams included
• Real examples from repo
• All validation checks pass
• UK English throughout
• PR docs(standards): Agent & Skills Standards Comprehensive Documentation - Batch 1 #1251 updated

Files & References

File: docs/WORKFLOWS_STANDARDS.md
Epic: #1261
PR: #1251
Plan: PLAN-EXPANDED.md

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