Building Agentic AI Systems
From Fundamentals to Production-Ready Multi-Agent Architectures
Master the art of building production-ready AI agents. Learn from Claude Code, Gemini, and Codex architectures. Build multi-agent systems with tool use, memory, MCP, and safety guardrails.
Foundations— Understanding agents and how they work.
Prerequisites and Setup
Essential knowledge and environment setup for building AI agents
The Agentic AI Revolution
Understanding the shift from chatbots to autonomous agents
Agent Architecture Fundamentals
Core components and design patterns of AI agents
Top Agents— How Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini work.
How Claude Code Works
Deep dive into Anthropic's agentic coding assistant
How OpenAI Codex Works
Understanding OpenAI's sandboxed coding agent
How Gemini Agents Work
Google's multimodal agent architecture
Core Patterns— ReAct, tools, memory, and planning.
The ReAct Pattern
Reasoning and Acting in synergy
Tool Use and Function Calling
Connecting agents to the real world
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
The universal standard for tool integration
Memory Systems for Agents
Building persistent and contextual memory
Planning and Reasoning
How agents break down and solve complex tasks
Building Agents— Hands-on agent implementation.
Building Your First Agent
Step-by-step implementation of a functional agent
Building a Coding Agent
Create an agent that writes and executes code
Building a Research Agent
Create an agent that searches, reads, and synthesizes information
Multi-Agent— LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGPT.
Multi-Agent Architectures
When and how to use multiple agents
LangGraph Deep Dive
Graph-based multi-agent orchestration
CrewAI Framework
Role-based multi-agent orchestration
AutoGPT and Autonomous Agents
Fully autonomous agent architectures
Production— Safety, observability, and deployment.
Agent Safety and Guardrails
Building safe and controllable agents
Observability and Debugging
Understanding what your agents are doing
Evaluation and Benchmarking
Measuring agent performance and reliability
Production Deployment
Taking agents from prototype to production
Advanced— Prompting, browser control, multimodal.
Advanced Prompting Techniques
Mastering prompts for agent behavior
Browser and Computer Control
Agents that interact with GUIs
Voice and Multimodal Agents
Beyond text: Audio, image, and video agents
Projects— Capstone implementations.
Project: CLI Coding Assistant
Build a Claude Code-style terminal agent
Project: Multi-Agent Research Team
Build a collaborative research crew
Project: Production AI Agent API
Deploy a production-ready agent service
The Future of Agentic AI
Where agents are heading
Where the book lands in practice.
Project: CLI Coding Assistant
Build a Claude Code-style terminal agent
Open chapterProject: Multi-Agent Research Team
Build a collaborative research crew
Open chapterProject: Production AI Agent API
Deploy a production-ready agent service
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Chapter 0 — Prerequisites and Setup — is where every reader starts.