Tech Verticals & Horizontals
Tech Verticals & Horizontals
Jan 10, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Five Core AI Agent Paradigms: Reflection, Tool Use, ReAct, Planning, and Multi‑Agent Collaboration

The article systematically outlines five dominant AI agent paradigms—Reflection, Tool Use, ReAct (reason‑action loop), Planning, and Multi‑Agent Collaboration—detailing their workflows, cognitive analogies, and how each advances agents from simple responders to self‑reflective, tool‑augmented, and socially coordinated intelligences.

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Five Core AI Agent Paradigms: Reflection, Tool Use, ReAct, Planning, and Multi‑Agent Collaboration
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 9, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Tackling Real‑World Challenges in Multi‑Agent React: From ToolCalls to Context Compression

This article analyzes production‑grade issues of a multi‑agent React framework—such as long ToolCall latency, context bloat, missing intermediate states, loop control, and supervision gaps—and presents concrete XML‑based tool‑call prompts, context‑compression techniques, summary tools, and a plug‑and‑play MCP supervisor that together improve performance, reliability, and user‑facing output quality.

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Tackling Real‑World Challenges in Multi‑Agent React: From ToolCalls to Context Compression