Agentic Design Patterns

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09/10/2025

Agentic Design Patterns

By: Antonio Gulli

On a Sandy Beach: 01/10/2025

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Note by Pawel Huryn

The Product Compass

A senior AI engineer at Google just dropped a 400-page book for review: Agentic Design Patterns.

It’s got everything about AI agents + code:

• Prompting
• MCP
• Tools
• RAG
• Memory
• Humans in the loop
• Multi-agent
• Guardrails
• You name it

You can read it here (Google Drive + links to chapters): docs.google.com/documen…

Remember to pre-order (published by Springer): a.co/d/b5SxY8t (all royalties go to Save the Children).

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Agentic Design Patterns

A Hands-On Guide to Building Intelligent Systems Antonio Gulli

Table of Contents - total 424 pages   = 1+2+1+1+4+9+103+61+34+114+74+5+4 11

Dedication, 1 page 

Acknowledgment, 2 pages  [final, last read done]

Foreword, 1 page   [final, last read done]

A Thought Leader's Perspective: Power and Responsibility   [final, last read done]

Introduction, 4 pages [final, last read done]

What makes an AI system an "agent"?, 9 pages [final, last read done]

Part One, (Total: 103 pages)

1. Chapter 1: Prompt Chaining (code), 12 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

2. Chapter 2: Routing (code), 13 pages [fina, last read done, code ok]

3. Chapter 3: Parallelization (code), 15 pages [final, last read done, code okl]

4. Chapter 4: Reflection (code), 13 pages [final, last read done, code okl]

5. Chapter 5: Tool Use (code), 20 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

6. Chapter 6: Planning (code), 13 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

7. Chapter 7: Multi-Agent (code), 17 pages [final,  last read done, code ok], 121

Part Two (Total: 61 pages)

8. Chapter 8: Memory Management (code), 21 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

9. Chapter 9: Learning and Adaptation (code), 12 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

10. Chapter 10: Model Context Protocol (MCP) (code), 16 pages  [final, last read done, code ok]

11. Chapter 11: Goal Setting and Monitoring (code), 12 pages [final, last read don, code oe], 182

Part Three (Total: 34 pages)

12. Chapter 12: Exception Handling and Recovery (code), 8 pages [final,  last read done, code ok]  

13. Chapter 13: Human-in-the-Loop (code), 9 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

14. Chapter 14: Knowledge Retrieval (RAG) (code), 17 pages [final, last read done, code ok], 216

Part Four (Total: 114 pages)

15. Chapter 15: Inter-Agent Communication (A2A) (code), 15 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

16. Chapter 16: Resource-Aware Optimization (code), 15 pages  [final,  last read done, code ok]

17. Chapter 17: Reasoning Techniques (code), 24 pages [final,  last read done, code ok]

18. Chapter 18: Guardrails/Safety Patterns (code), 19 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

19. Chapter 19: Evaluation and Monitoring (code), 18 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

20. Chapter 20: Prioritization (code), 10 pages [final, last read done, code ok ]

21. Chapter 21: Exploration and Discovery (code), 13 pages [final, last read done, code ok],330

Appendix (Total: 74 pages)

22. Appendix A: Advanced Prompting Techniques, 28 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

23. Appendix B - AI Agentic ….: From GUI to Real world environment, 6 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

24. Appendix C - Quick overview of Agentic Frameworks, 8 pages [final, last read done, code ok] ,

25. Appendix D - Building an Agent with AgentSpace (on-line only), 6 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

26. Appendix E - AI Agents on the CLI (online) , 5 pages [final, last read done, code ok]

27. Appendix F - Under the Hood: An Inside Look at the Agents’ Reasoning Engines, 14 pages [final, lrd, code ok],

28. Appendix G -  Coding agents, 7 pages  406

Conclusion, 5 pages [final, last read done] 

Glossary, 4 pages  [final, last read done]

Index of Terms, 11 pages  (Generated by Gemini. Reasoning step included as an agentic example) [final, lrd]

Online Contribution - Frequently Asked Questions: Agentic Design Patterns

Pre Print:>https://www.amazon.com/Agentic-Design-Patterns-Hands-Intelligent/dp/3032014018/ 

 [1] All my royalties will be donated to Save the Children