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Does your use-case need a pipeline,
a workflow, or an agent?

Pick your level and learn from real examples.

What describes you best?

This changes the language, not the content. Same concepts, different depth.

See it in action (simulated)

Pick a scenario to explore how each orchestration pattern handles it.

Morning coffee run Simple

Order coffee for the team

Expense report Medium

Process 12 receipts

New hire onboarding Complex

Accounts, equipment, meetings

How they differ?

Pipeline Workflow Agent* Feb 2026

*The notion of Agents is a moving target. What's in this column reflects current LLM tool-calling primitives — programmatic tool calls, tool-as-caller declarations, and code-execution loops. A year ago, most of this was a hack. Today it's a primitive. This table will evolve and most credits goes to Anthropic.

How to choose?