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2026 · May 27

ADPS founded

Four founding members announced: Jia Huang (framework, writing), Bingsheng Ru (software engineering), Willem Jiang (open source / harness), and Bo Liang (enterprise SaaS / FinTech). The two-axis framework and 28-pattern catalog become a community asset under ADPS.

The formal public announcement is scheduled for the Agentic AICon conference on June 5, 2026.

2026 · May 26

Manning MEAP launch — Designing AI Agents

Founding member Jia Huang's book Designing AI Agents launched on Manning MEAP. The book introduces the two-axis framework, 28 named patterns, and the Pattern Selection methodology that ADPS is built around.

View on Manning →

2026 · May 15

Position paper indexed on arXiv

A Two-Dimensional Framework for AI Agent Design Patterns: Cognitive Function × Execution Topology (Huang & Zhou) — the foundational paper behind ADPS — indexed on arXiv as 2605.13850 with companion Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19036557.