O01: Building effective agents

• Publisher: Anthropic
• URL: Primary source
• Published: 2024-12-19
• Updated/version date: not established
• Accessed: 2026-10-22
• Type: vendor engineering guidance
• Verification: opened source, rather than relying on a search excerpt

Supported finding

Added autonomy can improve task performance while increasing cost and latency. Start with a simple architecture and add complexity when the task justifies it.

Limits and transfer

Author experience, not a controlled comparison for Knauf. The page itself warns that tooling has changed since publication.

Use in the session

Mechanism and decision conditions. Retain the qualifications when translating the finding into slide copy. No source establishes Knauf’s savings.