Principles of Building AI Agents

Principles of Building AI Agents by Sam Bhagwat, 2nd edition. This book focuses on the substance of AI agents without hype or buzzwords. It covers: - The key building blocks of agents: providers, models, prompts, tools, memory - How to break down complex tasks with agentic workflows - Giving agents access to knowledge bases with RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) - Agent observability with tracing and evals.