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Architecture patterns

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Before this: 11 Production · After this: Design patterns Structure for agent systems. Enterprise AI patterns sits in Understand, because it needs no code.

Proven patterns and principles for building AI systems. This section is primarily for developers, architects, and technical leads, but anyone can benefit from understanding how AI systems are structured.

  • Design Patterns

    Workflow patterns, autonomous patterns, and pattern selection criteria for AI agent systems.

    Design Patterns

  • Enterprise guidance

    Best practices for identity and authorization, building agents, and building MCP servers, with the incidents behind each rule.

    Identity and authorization

  • Enterprise Patterns

    Copilot pattern, autonomous agents, intelligent document processing, conversational AI, and agentic RAG.

    Enterprise Patterns

  • Design Principles

    Core architectural principles — async-first, event streaming, serialization, and extensibility.

    Design Principles

  • Code Quality Pipeline

    A practical pipeline for reviewing AI-generated code with dead-code checks, duplication detection, and GitHub enforcement patterns.

    Code Quality Pipeline