humanlayer/12-factor-agents
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What are the principles we can use to build LLM-powered software that is actually good enough to put in the hands of production customers?
10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 5 stories, 5 comments · first 2025-04-11 · latest 2026-09-18
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…quite a bit is taking the agent pattern and sprinkling it into a broader more deterministic DAG." - https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents/blob/main/REA...
comment by mnalley95 · 2026-05-07 · in Agents need control flow, not more prompts -
…been posted on HN a few times): - https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-age... - https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents That's also why we implemented pretty much all relevant patterns in the docs (i.e.…
comment by abelanger · 2025-06-20 · in Show HN: Pickaxe – A TypeScript library for building AI agents -
I'm a big fan of https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents because I think it gets at the heart of engineering these systems for usage in your app rather than a completely unconstrained demo or MCP-based solution. In particular you…
comment by abelanger · 2025-06-04 · in A practical guide to building agents [pdf] -
…"AI Cannon" is a good reference listicle ( https://a16z.com/ai-canon/ ) - "12 factor agents" ( https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents )
comment by namnnumbr · 2025-05-24 -
…from BAML, what do you think of using the raw prompts from DSPY [2]? [0] https://dspy.ai/ [1] https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents/blob/main/con... [2] https://dspy.ai/tutorials/observability/#using-inspect_histo...
comment by hhimanshu · 2025-04-17 · in 12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications