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Agentic AI for serious engineers
Book

The Book

A field guide to building reliable, evaluable, production-grade agent systems.

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Foundations

Five hands-on sections that take you from zero to building your first agent and connecting it to tools via MCP.

  1. 00A How LLMs Actually Work 18 min
  2. 00B From API Calls to Tool Use 22 min
  3. 00C Your First Agent, No Framework 25 min
  4. 00D The Same Agent, With a Framework 15 min
  5. 00E Connecting Your Agent to MCP 14 min

Part I · Build

From components to multi-agent systems.

  1. 01 What "Agentic" Actually Means 12 min
  2. 02 Tools, Context, and the Agent Loop 2 min
  3. 03 Workflow First, Agent Second 2 min
  4. 04 Multi-Agent Systems Without Theater 2 min

Part II · Judge

Oversight, evaluation, and knowing when to stop.

  1. 05 Human-in-the-Loop as Architecture 2 min
  2. 06 Evaluating and Hardening Agents 2 min
  3. 07 When Not to Use Agents 2 min

Part III · Operate

Production reality.

  1. 08 Metacognition and Self-Reflection 2 min
  2. 09 Deploying and Scaling 2 min
  3. 10 Governance and Auditability 2 min
  4. 11 Security Deep Dive 2 min

Part IV · Advanced

Memory and protocols at scale.

  1. 12 Memory Management 2 min
  2. 13 Agent Protocols in Production 2 min