Start
Pick the path that matches where you are. Each one is a curated reading list, not a 13-chapter slog.
New to agentic AI
You've seen the hype. You want to know what's real and how to think about it.
Start with the Foundations.
- 00a How LLMs Work
- 00b API to Tools
- 00c Your First Agent
- 01 What Agentic Means
Building an agent
You're writing the code now. You want patterns that survive contact with production.
Jump to the build-focused chapters and the flagship project.
- 02 Tools, Context, Agent Loop
- 03 Workflow First
- 04 Multi-Agent Without Theater
- R-001 Strands on AgentCore
Running in production
You shipped. Now you need to evaluate, harden, and operate.
Evidence, evaluation, and operations chapters.
- 06 Evaluating and Hardening
- 07 When Not to Use Agents
- Evidence Wall
- L-001 Lab Report