Agentic Design Patterns
A Hands-On Guide to Building Intelligent Systems[^1], Antonio Gulli
Table of Contents
Dedication, 1 page
Acknowledgment, 2 pages [final, last read done]
Foreword, 1 page [final, last read done]
A Thought Leader’s Perspective: Power and Responsibility [final, last read done]
Introduction, 4 pages [final, last read done]
What makes an AI system an “agent”?, 9 pages [final, last read done]
Part One, (Total: 103 pages)
- Chapter 1: Prompt Chaining, 12 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
- Chapter 2: Routing, 13 pages [fina, last read done, code ok]
- Chapter 3: Parallelization, 15 pages [final, last read done, code okl]
- Chapter 4: Reflection, 13 pages [final, last read done, code okl]
- Chapter 5: Tool Use, 20 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
- Chapter 6: Planning, 13 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
- Chapter 7: Multi-Agent, 17 pages [final, last read done, code ok], 121
Part Two (Total: 61 pages)
- Chapter 8: Memory Management
- Chapter 9: Learning and Adaptation, 12 pages
- Chapter 10: Model Context Protocol (MCP), 16 pages
- Chapter 11: Goal Setting and Monitoring, 12 pages
Part Three (Total: 34 pages)
- Chapter 12: Exception Handling and Recovery, 8 pages
- Chapter 13: Human-in-the-Loop, 9 pages
- Chapter 14: Knowledge Retrieval (RAG), 17 pages
Part Four (Total: 114 pages)
- Chapter 15: Inter-Agent Communication (A2A), 15 pages
- Chapter 16: Resource-Aware Optimization, 15 pages
- Chapter 17: Reasoning Techniques, 24 pages
- Chapter 18: Guardrails/Safety Patterns, 19 pages
- Chapter 19: Evaluation and Monitoring, 18 pages
- Chapter 20: Prioritization, 10 pages
- Chapter 21: Exploration and Discovery, 13 pages
Appendix (Total: 74 pages)
- Appendix A: Advanced Prompting Techniques, 28 pages
- Appendix B - AI Agentic ….: From GUI to Real world environment, 6 pages
- Appendix C - Quick overview of Agentic Frameworks, 8 pages
- Appendix D - Building an Agent with AgentSpace (on-line only), 6 pages
- Appendix E - AI Agents on the CLI (online), 5 pages
- Appendix F - Under the Hood: An Inside Look at the Agents’ Reasoning Engines, 14 pages
- Appendix G - Coding agents, 7 pages
Conclusion, 5 pages
Glossary, 4 pages
Index of Terms, 11 pages (Generated by Gemini. Reasoning step included as an agentic example)
Online Contribution - Frequently Asked Questions: Agentic Design Patterns
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