LN: Masterman et al. (2024) — The Landscape of Emerging AI Agent Architectures: A Survey
Bibliographic Reference
Citation: Masterman, T., Besen, S., Sawtell, M., & Chao, A. (2024). The landscape of emerging AI agent architectures for reasoning, planning, and tool calling: A survey. arXiv:2404.11584. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11584 (This paper is in the PUMA project knowledge PDFs as “The_Landscape_of_Emerging_AI_Agent_Architectures_for_Reasoning_Planning_and_Tool_Calling_A_Survey_2404.11584v1.pdf”)
Pass 1 — Bird’s Eye View (5 Cs)
| C | Assessment |
|---|---|
| Category | Survey |
| Context | Comprehensive survey of agent architectures post-ChatGPT era |
| Correctness | Covers 30+ systems systematically. Well-organised taxonomy. |
| Contributions | (1) Taxonomy: single-agent vs. multi-agent; (2) Reasoning patterns: CoT, ToT, ReAct, Reflexion; (3) Planning: task decomposition, tool selection; (4) Tool integration patterns |
| Clarity | Excellent. Well-organised reference. |
Relevance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Provides the theoretical taxonomy for classifying PUMA’s agent architecture choices. Essential reference for Ch.2 state-of-the-art section.
Pass 2 — Key Points
The survey’s taxonomy of single-agent vs. multi-agent architectures, and the spectrum from “tool-augmented LLM” to “fully autonomous agent,” provides the classification framework for positioning PUMA:
- PUMA Stage 1–2: Tool-augmented LLM (Ollama inference + structured prompting)
- PUMA Stage 4: Single agent with RAG tool (ReAct pattern)
- PUMA Stage 5: Multi-agent with orchestration (MASAI/MetaGPT pattern)
PUMA Integration
- Ch.2 (State of the art): Primary taxonomy reference for agent architecture classification
- Architecture spec: SP-Architecture
- PUMA stages: stages 1–5 map to autonomy levels in this survey → EX-Stages-Overview
Related Permanent Notes
- PN-MultiAgent-ArchitecturePatterns — synthesised insight from this and related surveys
- PN-ReAct-AgentPattern — one of the reasoning patterns surveyed
- PN-KeyConcepts-Agents-Reproducibility-RedTeam — Agent OS concept