AI agents promise to automate work on an unprecedented scale—even for tasks requiring reasoning and complex multi-step processes. But where do you start? How do you budget your dev time and token spend? What do you do with an agent that “almost works?” How do you scale or improve a multi-agent system? Designing AI Agents answers all these questions, and more.
This innovative book explores 27 reusable patterns that you can apply to your own agentic systems confidently. Each pattern has been stress-tested at scale, with over 10,000 engineers applying them to ship production