---
title: "Planner / Decomposition · agent building block · Agent Fieldbook"
url: https://agentfieldbook.org/design/building_blocks/planner/
description: "breaks a goal into ordered steps"
section: "Design · Building Blocks · Node"
source: Agent Fieldbook — generated from the published page
---

# Planner / Decomposition

breaks a goal into ordered steps

## What it does

## At a glance

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Functional node |
| Example agents | Devin, Claude Code |

## Basis

- [anthropic.com](https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents)