BL-CLM-15.

Anthropic distinguishes workflows with predefined code paths from agents that dynamically direct their processes and tool use.

Source

www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents ↗

Where in the source

What are agents?; When (and when not) to use agents

Source organization

Anthropic

Evidence type

Vendor engineering guidance

Source date

2024-12-19

Last verified

2026-10-09

Approved wording

Anthropic distinguishes workflows with predefined code paths from agents that dynamically direct their processes and tool use.

Scope and caveats

Engineering guidance published in 2024. The article notes that the tooling landscape has since changed.

Do not infer

Do not treat this article as independent evidence of Papyrus ROI, performance, or integration support.