AI Agent Skills for Engineers: Master the 16 Essential Skills to Build, Scale, and Deploy Production-Ready Agentic Systems

By Harvey Chandler

AI Agent Skills for Engineers: Master the 16 Essential Skills to Build, Scale, and Deploy Production-Ready Agentic Systems

Are your AI agents still stuck as impressive demos instead of reliable production systems?

Modern engineering teams need more than clever prompts. They need agents that can use tools safely, retrieve accurate context, manage memory, follow guardrails, coordinate workflows, pass evaluations, expose traces, and run under real operational constraints. AI Agent Skills for Engineers gives AI Engineers, AI Developers, Machine Learning Engineers, Prompt Engineers, and software professionals a practical roadmap for building agentic AI systems that work beyond the prototype stage.

This book teaches the 16 essential skills behind production-ready AI agents, from agent architecture and instruction design to tool calling, MCP integration, RAG, memory, planning, workflow orchestration, multi-agent collaboration, human-in-the-loop controls, security, evaluation, observability, deployment, scaling, cost control, and reliability optimization.

Inside, you will learn how to:

Build agents with clear roles, boundaries, and execution rulesDesign safe tools with validation, retries, and error handlingConnect agents to external systems with MCP and structured tool schemasCreate RAG and memory systems that reduce hallucinations and preserve contextOrchestrate reliable workflows with checkpoints, branches, and recovery pathsAdd guardrails, approval gates, tracing, regression tests, and production checklistsDeploy agentic systems that are secure, measurable, scalable, and cost-aware

Written for practical engineers, this guide avoids vague theory and focuses on the real skills needed to design, test, secure, and operate AI agent systems in modern software environments.

If you want to move from prompt experiments to production-grade agentic AI applications, order AI Agent Skills for Engineers today and start building agents that can actually be trusted.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZTZ7B9Z
• ISBN13: 9798195813062
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"