Manning offers free 4-chapter ebook on building testable, reliable AI agents
kalyan_kpl · x · 2026-10-25
Manning has released a free ebook, Agent Engineering: Tools, Workflows, and Feedback, a four-chapter practical guide for engineers building reliable agentic systems.
Key topics covered:
- Combining an LLM, tools, and an agent loop for autonomous action
- Building tool-based agents with LangGraph, including state management and conditional routing
- Breaking complex agent processes into focused, testable, reusable units
- Evaluating behavior with benchmarks, rubrics, critic agents, grounding agents, and guardrails
- Improving agents via tracing, experiments, session tracking, and feedback
Authored by Jungjun Hur, Younghee Song, and others, the book is free to download; a bundle of all 4 related ebooks is priced at $99.99.
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