agentic-engineering

Agentic Engineering Worksheet — a trace-first handbook that skills engineers at every level, from first agent loop to org-scale judgment: build agents end to end, operate coding agents well, and prove it against labs and per-level exams.

Read online · Download the PDF · candidate edition (model answers stripped, for self-testing) · all releases

Labs and exam practicals run offline with zero API keys: cd labs/lab03-tool-loop && uv sync && uv run pytest.

Chapters

Part A — Foundations

• Chapter 1 — The Agent Loop: Big Picture
• Chapter 2 — Models & the API Surface
• Chapter 3 — Context Engineering

Part B — Capabilities

• Chapter 4 — Tool Design & MCP
• Chapter 5 — Memory & State
• Chapter 6 — Retrieval & RAG

Part C — Coding agents

• Chapter 7 — Inside a Coding-Agent Harness
• Chapter 8 — Operating Coding Agents: Workflows

Part D — Systems

• Chapter 9 — Multi-Agent Orchestration
• Chapter 10 — Evals
• Chapter 11 — Safety & Guardrails
• Chapter 12 — Production Ops, Cost & Latency

Part E — Judgment

• Chapter 13 — Architecture Judgment & Org Adoption
• Chapter 14 — Lineage, Frontier & Capstones

Reference

• The 35 traces
• Labs — hands-on, offline-first exercises in labs/
• Exams — per-level assessment in exams/

If the worksheet helps you build or operate agents, a ⭐ helps others find it — and watching releases gets you new chapters as they land.

Contributing

Read CONTRIBUTING.md; the style contract is STYLE.md.