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Agentic Mesh: Patterns for an Agent Ecosystem
Unlocking organizational, communication, role, and functional agent patterns that shape the autonomous agent ecosystem.
Deloitte says that “25% of enterprises using GenAI are forecast to deploy AI agents in 2025, growing to 50% by 2027”. Maybe it is just me, but it seems obvious that autonomous agents (which I refer to as “agents” for the remainder of the article) are not just a trend. So the real question is this: how can we make sure that these agents are easy to build, built to scale, and meet the expectations of enterprises?
Well, first, we can introduce new capabilities to build enterprise-grade agents. We could also let agents safely use tools and collaborate with other agents. Of course, we could also ensure that we have rock solid principles that guide the creation of our agents. And we could build a set of ecosystem capabilities — an Agentic Mesh — that allow our agents to be discoverable, observable, operable, and trustworthy.
But there is at least one more thing to think about…
We should really define a set of reusable, composable, agent patterns! Past experience in other domains (everything from house building to chip building) has shown that developing agents without established patterns can lead to…
