Agents: From Theory to Production
A practical, research-grounded guide that connects the classical theory of intelligent agents to the modern craft of building autonomous LLM agents with tools, memory, planning, and multi-agent orchestration.
- 1 Foundations of Agency
- 2 The LLM as an Agent
- 3 Building Agents
From classical theory to shipping real systems
The book connects the classical theory of intelligent agents to the modern practice of building autonomous LLM agents with tools, memory, planning, and multi-agent orchestration. It is written to make hard ideas click.
Foundations of agency
What an agent really is, its history and theory, architectures, environments, and rationality.
The LLM as an agent
LLMs as reasoners, the augmented LLM with tools and memory, and reasoning and planning.
Building agents
Workflows vs. agents, agentic patterns, tools and the Model Context Protocol, and beyond.
Concept-first
Every hard idea leads with an everyday analogy and a diagram before any formalism.
Research-grounded
Non-obvious claims are cited to primary sources; nothing is hand-waved.
Production-minded
Evaluation, safety, guardrails, and the craft of shipping agents that hold up.
The book is a living project, updated as the field moves.
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