# Techniques

Use-case-driven data curation and cost-engineering techniques that make agents survive production. One file per technique. The library is open-ended: submissions welcome via the technique-submission issue template, he...

Author: Murali Sid (https://linkedin.com/in/muralisid)
Source: https://www.agenticarchitectureskills.com/library/techniques
Published: 2026-09-18
Updated: 2026-09-18
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Cite as: Murali Sid. Techniques. Agentic Architecture Skills. https://www.agenticarchitectureskills.com/library/techniques

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## Required format (every entry) [#required-format-every-entry]

1. **Problem**: what breaks or costs too much without this technique
2. **Mechanism**: how it works, concretely enough to rebuild
3. **Worked example**: at least one production case (anonymized is fine); the scale it ran at
4. **Economics**: token or cost math, before and after; order of magnitude acceptable
5. **When to use / when not to**: decision criteria
6. **Failure modes and limits**
7. **References**: dated sources; maintainer knowledge cited from practitioner interviews

## Publication status [#publication-status]

* **Published:** [When a knowledge graph earns its keep](/library/techniques/when-a-knowledge-graph-earns-its-keep), a contested-choice study comparing graph databases with embedding retrievers.
* **Tested; results published as a research section, entry released from the publication hold on 2026-08-23:** Multi-view (multi-card) embeddings with LLM-guided topic modelling. The pattern was tested in five rounds of experiments on public corpora (2026-08-19 to 2026-08-22); the results, including the negative ones, and the approach the evidence supports are published on the site's research pages (`/research`, with the design at `/research/recommended-approach`). The technique entry, [Multi-view embeddings with LLM-guided taxonomy](/library/techniques/multi-view-embeddings), is published with a status note; it predates the experiments, and the research pages, not the entry, are the implementation guidance.
* **Planned, not yet guidance:** Corrective RAG cascades; compaction and structured note-taking; distillation flywheels; semantic and prompt caching; deterministic routing tiers.