Agent Pipelines

Agent pipelines are structured sequences of operations that an AI agent executes to complete a task. Unlike simple prompt → response flows, pipelines chain multiple steps: data retrieval, analysis, tool calls, validation checks, human approval gates, and output formatting. Pipeline design determines reliability, debuggability, and cost. Well-designed pipelines have clear stage boundaries, error handling at each step, and observability hooks that let you see exactly where things went right or wrong.