Open-source Agentic Engineering Guide: 10 parts, 33 chapters on shipping AI agents to production
_akpiper · x · 2026-09-23
Engineer Siddhant Khare released The Agentic Engineering Guide, an open-source book for engineering leaders, spanning 10 parts and 33 chapters on decisions needed to ship AI agents to production.
Key coverage:
- Context engineering: context windows, the context engineering stack, RAG vs. agentic search
- Security & authorization: the agent security crisis, Zanzibar for AI agents, prompt injection & tool poisoning, sandboxing & runtime protection
- Protocols: MCP, agent-to-agent (A2A) communication, AGENTS.md
- Observability & ops: agent traces with OpenTelemetry, token economics, incident response
- Orchestration & team practices: the agent loop, multi-agent systems, memory & checkpoints, AI fatigue, the conductor model, maturity models
- Production workflows: first agent in production, security checklists, measuring agent impact
About half the book covers non-code organizational decisions (adoption playbooks, governance, metrics), making it useful for technical PMs and engineering managers. Early version, PRs welcome.
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