Agents and Workflows

CCDV-F · 30 questions

• A city permitting office needs ordinance FAQ triage where every ticket must follow the same fixed multi-step approval checklist before a reply is sent. When should the team prefer a deterministic workflow over a free-roaming Claude agent?
• A county 311 program wants one Claude manager agent to delegate streetlight outages to one specialist and pothole reports to another. What architecture pattern best fits this design?
• A transit authority splits schedule lookups and fare-policy answers into separate Claude subagents. What is the primary benefit of that isolation?
• A water utility compares a scripted SCADA alert chain to a Claude agent that invents investigation steps at runtime. Which choice best fits high-predictability, safety-critical utility operations?
• A housing authority clerk needs Claude to apply a fixed eligibility checklist and must not invent new criteria mid-call. Which approach best enforces that constraint?
• An emergency-management desk designs a Claude supervisor that should escalate only after field-status subagents return structured reports. What design element makes that gate reliable?
• A library IT team compares one monolithic Claude agent to separate research and catalog-update subagents for staff assistants. When is subagent decomposition the better tradeoff?
• A school-district helpdesk wants an orchestrator that sends password resets to IT tools and curriculum questions to a read-only knowledge agent. What routing principle should it apply?
• A parks department requires inspection photos to be posted before Claude drafts a trail closure notice. Which pattern best enforces that mandatory preceding step?
• A city developer needs Claude to poll the permit database between model turns while building a permitting agent. Which construction approach best supports that custom loop?
• A county IT lead must choose Anthropic-hosted managed agents versus self-hosting the agent runtime inside the county VPC. Which factor most strongly favors self-hosting?
• A court clerk project must prevent Claude from calling a file-delete tool until an archive action is confirmed. Which Agent SDK mechanism provides that deterministic guardrail?
• A 311 engineering team wants tool failures to retry with backoff before control returns to Claude. Where should that retry logic live?
• A transit app team wants riders to see intermediate status while an agent calls arrival-prediction tools. What construction practice supports that experience?
• A public-health portal needs Claude agents that can call department tools for clinic hours and vaccine inventory. What Agent SDK step enables those capabilities?
• A water-utility engineer must ensure Claude cannot open a valve-control API without dual human approval. Which mechanism best enforces that rule?
• A housing-authority team must keep case notes inside the authority's approved hosting boundary. Which agent hosting choice best matches that constraint?
• A municipal open-data portal agent must avoid runaway tool calling against public endpoints. What harness control best bounds fair use per resident query?
• A city CIO wants civic Claude agents that are operable and auditable rather than ad-hoc chat scripts. Which construction preference supports that goal?
• An emergency ops agent must write a structured JSON status update into the incident log after every tool turn. How should that side effect be enforced?
• A permitting agent must look up a parcel, check zoning, then draft conditions from the returned records. Which agent pattern describes that sequence?
• A 311 agent needs the open ticket ID across clarification turns without stuffing the entire chat history each time. What pattern best addresses that need?
• A transit research agent receives long trip-planner tool dumps that risk overflowing the next Claude turn. What should the agent pattern do before continuing?
• A library team must choose between a LangGraph-style graph and a simple Claude tool loop for multi-step catalog repair. What should drive that framework choice?
• A school-district agent retrieves grading policy in one path and must not expose student PII tools on that path. Which pattern best enforces least-privilege isolation?
• A parks maintenance agent must recall prior trail closures across shifts without re-querying the closure API every turn. Which pattern best fits?
• A county clerk agent must keep typed filing steps between tool calls so each stage has validated fields. Which approach best supports that?
• A public-works flood-complaint desk needs inspect, prioritize, and notify workers coordinated as one multi-step job. What should the team use?
• A housing waitlist agent receives huge eligibility-tool JSON that crowds the next deliberation turn. What should developers do?
• A municipal legal-research assistant must search case law without polluting the parent drafting thread. Which design is best?