Practice — Case Study: Design an Ask-the-Web Agent (5 questions)

A colleague sketches an "ask the web" agent as: rewrite the query, call a search API, fetch and extract the top 8 pages one after another, then feed everything to an LLM to write the answer. They call the whole thing "the agent."

1. Using the named vocabulary from agent-design-patterns-workflows-to- autonomous-agents, identify which pattern(s) this design actually uses, and say precisely why "the agent" is the wrong word for it.
2. Identify the one change to this design that would most improve latency without changing cost, and name the pattern it introduces.
3. Would adding "if the sources are weak, search again with a refined query, up to once" change your answer to (2)? Why or why not?