Google engineer's 482-page Agentic Design Patterns guide goes viral, covering MCP, A2A and multi-agent
mdancho84 · x · 2026-10-30
A 482-page guide, Agentic Design Patterns: A Hands-On Guide to Building Intelligent Systems by senior Google AI engineer Antonio Gulli, is going viral on X.
- Part One (103 pages) covers seven core patterns: prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, reflection, tool use, planning, and multi-agent
- Part Two covers memory management, learning and adaptation, MCP, and goal setting/monitoring; Part Three covers exception handling, human-in-the-loop, and RAG
- Part Four (114 pages) dives into A2A agent communication, resource-aware optimization, guardrails/safety patterns, and evaluation
- 74 pages of appendices cover advanced prompting, building agents on Agent Space, CLI agents, and agents' reasoning engines
- Every chapter ships with runnable code; the print edition is on Amazon, with all royalties donated to Save the Children
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