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| 1 | +# The Agentic Engineering Guide |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +Concepts, workflows, and team practices for AI agent infrastructure. |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +**10 Parts · 33 Chapters · 4 Appendices** |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +By [Siddhant Khare](https://siddhantkhare.com) · February 2026 |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +--- |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +## Read online |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +[**siddhant-k-code.github.io/agentic-engineering-guide**](https://siddhant-k-code.github.io/agentic-engineering-guide) |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +## Buy the book |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +[**siddhantkhare.gumroad.com**](https://siddhantkhare.gumroad.com) |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +--- |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +## Table of Contents |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +### Part I — Foundations |
| 24 | +1. The Agentic Engineering Landscape |
| 25 | +2. The Capability Jump |
| 26 | +3. The Agentic AI Foundation & Standards |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +### Part II — Context Engineering |
| 29 | +4. Context Windows |
| 30 | +5. The Context Engineering Stack |
| 31 | +6. RAG vs. Agentic Search |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +### Part III — Security & Authorization |
| 34 | +7. The Agent Security Crisis |
| 35 | +8. Zanzibar for AI Agents |
| 36 | +9. Prompt Injection & Tool Poisoning |
| 37 | +10. Sandboxing & Runtime Protection |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +### Part IV — Protocols & Standards |
| 40 | +11. Model Context Protocol (MCP) |
| 41 | +12. Agent-to-Agent Communication (A2A) |
| 42 | +13. AGENTS.md & Codebase Onboarding |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +### Part V — Observability & Operations |
| 45 | +14. Agent Traces & OpenTelemetry |
| 46 | +15. Cost Tracking & Token Economics |
| 47 | +16. Incident Response for Agent Failures |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +### Part VI — Agent Orchestration |
| 50 | +17. The Agent Loop |
| 51 | +18. Multi-Agent Systems |
| 52 | +19. Agent Memory & Checkpoints |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +### Part VII — Team Practices |
| 55 | +20. AI Fatigue & Sustainable Adoption |
| 56 | +21. The Conductor Model |
| 57 | +22. Agent Maturity Model |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +### Part VIII — Production Workflows |
| 60 | +23. Your First Agent in Production |
| 61 | +24. Security Checklist & Review Policies |
| 62 | +25. Measuring Agent Impact |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +### Part IX — Production Engineering |
| 65 | +26. Agent Evaluation & Testing |
| 66 | +27. Enterprise Adoption & Vendor Strategy |
| 67 | +28. Agent Cost Control & FinOps |
| 68 | +29. Agent Governance & Compliance |
| 69 | +30. Structured Outputs & Function Calling |
| 70 | +31. Model Selection & Routing |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +### Part X — Sustainability & Deployment |
| 73 | +32. Backpressure & Automated Feedback |
| 74 | +33. The Agent Adoption Playbook |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +### Appendices |
| 77 | +- A: Tool & Framework Directory |
| 78 | +- B: Glossary |
| 79 | +- C: Further Reading & References |
| 80 | +- D: Templates & Checklists |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +--- |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +## Development |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +```bash |
| 87 | +npm install |
| 88 | +npm run dev |
| 89 | +``` |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +Build for production: |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | +```bash |
| 94 | +npm run build |
| 95 | +``` |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +## Tech stack |
| 98 | + |
| 99 | +- [Astro](https://astro.build) — static site generator |
| 100 | +- [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com) — styling |
| 101 | +- [MDX](https://mdxjs.com) — content format |
| 102 | +- [Geist](https://vercel.com/font) — typography |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | +## License |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | +Content is licensed under [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). |
| 107 | + |
| 108 | +Copyright 2026 Siddhant Khare. |
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