Agentic Engineering Book | Jaymin West

Agentic Engineering

Foundations Twelve Leverage Points of Agentic Coding

Prompt Prompt Types Prompt Structuring Prompt Language

Model Model Selection Model Behavior Model Limitations and Workarounds Multi-Model Architectures Model Evaluation for Agents

Context Context Fundamentals Context Management Strategies Advanced Context Patterns Multi-Agent Context

Tool Use Tool Design Tool Selection and Routing Tool Restrictions and Security Scaling Tool Use Skills and Meta-Tools

Patterns Plan-Build-Review Pattern Self-Improving Expert Commands Orchestrator Pattern Autonomous Loops (Ralph Wiggum)ReAct Pattern Human-in-the-Loop Pattern Progressive Disclosure Pattern

Practices Debugging Agents Evaluation Cost and Latency Production Concerns Workflow Coordination for Agents Knowledge Evolution

Mental Models Pit of Success Prompt Maturity Model Specs as Source Code Context as Code Execution Topologies

Practitioner Toolkit Claude Code Google ADK IDE Integrations Agent Frameworks