IMPLEMENTING AGENTIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: FROM COPILOTS TO AUTONOMOUS SDLC PIPELINES: Requirements Generation, AI Code Review, Automated Testing, Deployment Agents, and Governance Frameworks

By EERO SULLIVAN

Build agentic software development systems that can move from requirements to production with autonomy, verification, security, and control.

AI coding is moving beyond autocomplete and isolated code generation. The real engineering challenge is building agents that can understand repositories, use tools safely, coordinate complex work, verify their own progress without relying on self-validation, and operate across the software delivery lifecycle without creating uncontrolled risk.

This practical guide shows you how to design production-oriented agentic development systems where models handle reasoning and adaptation while deterministic controls enforce permissions, testing, policy, deployment rules, and evidence requirements.

Design production software agents with bounded tools, durable state, sandboxes, checkpoints, budgets, and clear termination conditionsTurn business intent into structured requirements, acceptance criteria, specifications, dependency-aware task graphs, and traceable evidenceBuild repository-aware coding agents using context engineering, symbol search, dependency analysis, change-impact analysis, worktrees, and controlled scopeConnect agents to external systems with the Model Context Protocol and coordinate independent agents through structured agent-to-agent communicationImplement manager-worker, handoff, pipeline, fan-out, and event-driven multi-agent workflowsGenerate unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, property-based, mutation, fuzz, security, and adversarial testsPrevent self-validation, test gaming, specification gaming, and false confidence through independent verificationBuild AI code review systems that assess correctness, architecture, performance, security, maintainability, regressions, and missing changesDiagnose CI failures, create security remediation agents, protect dependencies and secrets, and produce SBOMs, provenance, signatures, and attestationsDesign governed deployment agents using release state machines, GitOps, canary releases, blue-green delivery, telemetry-driven promotion, and rollbackSecure agentic systems against prompt injection, goal hijacking, tool misuse, memory poisoning, excessive permissions, and unsafe delegationOperate autonomous SDLC pipelines with observability, SLOs, error budgets, circuit breakers, shadow mode, canary autonomy, model routing, cost controls, and agent registries

The guide includes extensive Python, YAML, shell, and configuration examples that turn architectural concepts into concrete patterns you can adapt for real engineering systems.

Whether you are building coding agents, developer platforms, AI-assisted DevOps workflows, secure software automation, or a complete autonomous delivery pipeline, you will learn how to connect capability with the controls required for production use.

Grab your copy today and start building agentic software delivery systems that are observable, verifiable, secure, and ready for serious engineering work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGZP6LFY
• ISBN13: 9798170426775
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.9" x 7.0"