Agentic AI with Claude: Build Autonomous Workflows from Scratch

By James Vegalo

You use Claude every day, but you still have no idea how to build real AI agents with it.

Every AI agent tutorial online treats prompting like the entire skill, so you keep doing manual work by hand. Meanwhile, other developers already have Claude agents running completely unattended, catching real errors, and shipping finished work while they sleep.

Agentic AI with Claude changes that completely, starting with a real, fully runnable agent on page one of this guide. This hands-on guide takes you from your first working agent to a production system built on the real Claude Agent SDK. Every single example uses real tool calls and the same safety patterns professional teams rely on before trusting an agent.

Build and run your first fully working Claude agent completely from scratch using the real Claude Agent SDK, no shortcutsConnect Claude to real internal tools, live databases, and outside services using the actual Model Context Protocol standardWrite instructions precise enough that your agent stops guessing on messy, unpredictable, real-world edge cases every single time it runsAdd hard guardrails, deterministic hooks, and strict permission rules so your agent never takes an action it genuinely should notTest and grade your agent's actual output against real written rubrics before any real customer ever actually sees the resultScale from one single working agent to a fully monitored, multi-agent AI automation system running safely in real productionFollow one complete real business workflow from an actual messy problem to a fully shipped, working autonomous agent

Become the developer who actually ships autonomous Claude agents into real production instead of just talking about agentic AI theory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HC44G3HY
• ISBN13: 9798189713958
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"