The Agentic AI Handbook: Design Patterns, Frameworks, and Tests for Real-World LLM-Powered Agents

By Venkatesh Rao

The Agentic AI Handbook

Design Patterns, Frameworks, and Tests for Real-World LLM-Powered Agents

If you're tired of endless prompt tutorials and still struggling to build AI agents that actually do something-this is your book.

The Agentic AI Handbook is the agentic AI bible for builders who want to ship fast, think clearly, and move beyond chatbots. Whether you're an indie hacker, product manager, or software engineer, this is where AI agents in action finally make sense.

Inside, you'll learn:

How to design and deploy real-world agentic AI engineering systems

The core agentic AI design patterns behind reliable, modular agents

How to go from blank page to Minimum Viable Agent (MVA) in 48 hours

Smart ways to test, evaluate, and avoid hallucinations

Practical tools and frameworks you can plug into your stack today

Even if you're just starting out, this book reads like agentic AI for dummies without the fluff. It walks through simple examples, shows where things break, and helps you build your first real agent from scratch. If you've been looking for AI agents for beginners that go beyond the surface, you'll get huge value here.

This is not theory. It's not research papers. It's not another "prompt like a pro" ebook.

It's the agentic AI bible you'll keep coming back to... with working agentic AI design patterns, proven agentic AI engineering insights, and real AI agents in action you can build, break, and deploy.

Even if you consider yourself more of a beginner, the agentic AI for dummies energy in these pages makes it feel approachable and powerful.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G3XMV28M
• ISBN13: 9798275689884
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"