A Chinese translation and illustrated edition of Anthropic’s “Building Effective Agents,” credited to original authors Erik Schluntz and Barry Zhang and dated December 19, 2024. The report describes it as a complete translation with seven redrawn architecture diagrams. It distinguishes workflows, which follow predefined code paths, from agents, which dynamically direct their own processes and tool use. The guide covers prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator-workers, and evaluator-optimizer patterns, and recommends starting with direct LLM API calls, keeping designs simple and transparent, and carefully designing tool interfaces. The supplied report does not independently verify the translation’s completeness or editorial fidelity.