Two Axes for Reading LLM Agent Design: What the Agent Does and How It Runs
Two Axes for Reading LLM Agent Design: What the Agent Does and How It Runs This post looks at the arXiv paper "A Two-Dimensional Framework for AI Agent Design Patterns: Cognitive Function and Execution Topology." The paper addresses a simple but important problem in LLM agent discussions: many frameworks describe agents from only one angle, even though real systems differ both in what kind of reasoning role they perform and in how execution is organized. [S1] [S1] Paper overview: what it is about The paper is an arXiv work on LLM agent design frameworks. Its starting point is that existing descriptions of agent architectures often come from two separate traditions: industry-oriented guides that emphasize execution structure, and cognitive-science-style surveys that emphasize mental or functional roles. According to the abstract, the authors argue that neither view alone is enough to clearly distinguish architecturally different systems. [S1] Sources: [S1] Core idea: cogn...