--- title: AI agent design patterns | daily.dev description: An introduction to AI agent design patterns covering three foundational patterns: single agent, sequential agent, and parallel agent. Single agents are simple... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agent-design-patterns-fhcxn9y34 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI agent design patterns | daily.dev og:description: An introduction to AI agent design patterns covering three foundational patterns: single agent, sequential agent, and parallel agent. Single agents are simple... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agent-design-patterns-fhcxn9y34 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fHcXn9Y34.png og:image:alt: AI agent design patterns og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI agent design patterns **[YouTube](https://daily.dev/sources/youtube)** · 8 min read · 4 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary An introduction to AI agent design patterns covering three foundational patterns: single agent, sequential agent, and parallel agent. Single agents are simple but unreliable for complex workflows. Sequential agents run sub-agents in a fixed order using shared session state, offering more control but less flexibility. Parallel agents run multiple specialized agents concurrently to reduce latency, then combine results via an aggregator. Code examples are demonstrated using Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) with a trip-planning use case. Future episodes will cover orchestrator, loop/critique, and agent-as-tool patterns. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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