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Agentic Design Patterns

A hands-on guide to building intelligent AI agent systems.

  • Rating

    4.8 / 5

  • Pricing

    Free

  • Difficulty

    Advanced

  • Works on

    Offline, Web

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What is Agentic Design Patterns?

Agentic Design Patterns is the companion repository to Antonio Gulli's book, a hands-on guide to building intelligent systems. It contains all 21 chapters and 7 appendices in PDF format plus code notebooks for hands-on learning. The patterns span prompt chaining, routing and parallelization, through reflection, tool use, planning and multi-agent systems, to memory management, exception handling, human-in-the-loop, RAG, guardrails and reasoning techniques for production agents. Author royalties are donated to Save the Children.

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Pros: what Agentic Design Patterns does well

  • Complete chapters and code notebooks available free in the repo
  • Covers 21 chapters from basics to production-grade agent systems
  • Hands-on notebooks make each pattern practical
  • Royalties from the print book go to charity

Cons: where it falls short

  • Advanced material that assumes solid programming fundamentals
  • Print and ebook editions are paid, only the repo is free

Who Agentic Design Patterns is for

Engineers and builders designing serious AI agent systems who want proven patterns rather than trial and error.

Who can skip it

Complete beginners to AI who would be better served by an introductory course first.

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