Agentic Design Patterns

A Hands-On Guide to Building Intelligent Systems1, Antonio Gulli
Table of Contents - total 424 pages = 1+2+1+1+4+9+103+61+34+114+74+5+4 11
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)

  1. Chapter 1: Prompt Chaining (code), 12 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  2. Chapter 2: Routing (code), 13 pages [fina, last read done, code ok]
  3. Chapter 3: Parallelization (code), 15 pages [final, last read done, code okl]
  4. Chapter 4: Reflection (code), 13 pages [final, last read done, code okl]
  5. Chapter 5: Tool Use (code), 20 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  6. Chapter 6: Planning (code), 13 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  7. Chapter 7: Multi-Agent (code), 17 pages [final, last read done, code ok], 121

Part Two (Total: 61 pages)

  1. Chapter 8: Memory Management (code), 21 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  2. Chapter 9: Learning and Adaptation (code), 12 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  3. Chapter 10: Model Context Protocol (MCP) (code), 16 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  4. Chapter 11: Goal Setting and Monitoring (code), 12 pages [final, last read don, code oe], 182

Part Three (Total: 34 pages)

  1. Chapter 12: Exception Handling and Recovery (code), 8 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  2. Chapter 13: Human-in-the-Loop (code), 9 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  3. Chapter 14: Knowledge Retrieval (RAG) (code), 17 pages [final, last read done, code ok], 216

Part Four (Total: 114 pages)

  1. Chapter 15: Inter-Agent Communication (A2A) (code), 15 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  2. Chapter 16: Resource-Aware Optimization (code), 15 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  3. Chapter 17: Reasoning Techniques (code), 24 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  4. Chapter 18: Guardrails/Safety Patterns (code), 19 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  5. Chapter 19: Evaluation and Monitoring (code), 18 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  6. Chapter 20: Prioritization (code), 10 pages [final, last read done, code ok ]
  7. Chapter 21: Exploration and Discovery (code), 13 pages [final, last read done, code ok], 330

Appendix (Total: 74 pages)

  1. Appendix A: Advanced Prompting Techniques, 28 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  2. Appendix B - AI Agentic ….: From GUI to Real world environment, 6 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  3. Appendix C - Quick overview of Agentic Frameworks, 8 pages [final, last read done, code ok] ,
  4. Appendix D - Building an Agent with AgentSpace (on-line only), 6 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  5. Appendix E - AI Agents on the CLI (online) , 5 pages [final, last read done, code ok]
  6. Appendix F - Under the Hood: An Inside Look at the Agents’ Reasoning Engines, 14 pages [final, lrd, code ok],
  7. Appendix G - Coding agents, 7 pages 406

Conclusion, 5 pages [final, last read done]
Glossary, 4 pages [final, last read done]
Index of Terms, 11 pages (Generated by Gemini. Reasoning step included as an agentic example) [final, lrd]
Online Contribution - Frequently Asked Questions: Agentic Design Patterns
Pre Print: https://www.amazon.com/Agentic-Design-Patterns-Hands-Intelligent/dp/3032014018/

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