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AI Agent Development with Python: Build, Evaluate, and Deploy Autonomous Agents with RAG, Memory, Tool Calling, MCP, and Multi-Agent Systems
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.58 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Building an AI agent that produces an impressive demo is easy. Building one that can operate reliably in production is not.
You may already know Python, APIs, or large language models, yet still struggle to turn a basic agent loop into a dependable application. Tool calls can fail or repeat. Retrieved information may be incomplete. Memory can become stale or leak across users. Long-running tasks may lose state, while multi-agent workflows introduce unclear permissions and failure boundaries.
Without the right engineering controls, an autonomous agent can appear capable while remaining difficult to test, secure, monitor, and deploy.
SolutionAI Agent Development with Python provides a practical, implementation-focused path from experimental agents to controlled production systems.
Through the evolving Autonomous Service Operations Platform, you will build an agentic application one layer at a time. The book begins with a reproducible Python environment and a plain-Python agent loop, then adds structured decisions, reliable tool calling, evidence-aware retrieval-augmented generation, governed memory, durable state, MCP integrations, specialist agents, evaluation, security, and production operations.
You will learn how to:
- Build provider-neutral agent loops with typed decisions, state transitions, execution limits, and clear completion rules.
- Create secure, idempotent tools with authorization checks, approval gates, structured results, and failure handling.
- Implement hybrid RAG with metadata filtering, reranking, permission-aware retrieval, and safeguards against unsupported actions.
- Manage working memory, long-term memory, checkpoints, context compaction, queues, retries, and interrupted runs.
- Design MCP and multi-agent systems with restricted permissions, structured handoffs, A2A communication, and measurable failure boundaries.
The guidance is written for Python developers, backend engineers, AI application builders, technical founders, and software teams moving beyond chatbots and prototypes.
ProofThe book is organized around the AGENTOPS engineering framework: aim the agent, ground decisions, equip it with controlled tools, normalize state and memory, test outcomes and trajectories, observe every run, protect identity and authority, and ship improvements safely.
Rather than evaluating only final responses, you will measure complete agent trajectories-including retrieval quality, tool selection, arguments, approvals, latency, cost, grounding, and task completion. Reusable code patterns, evaluation templates, incident runbooks, deployment checklists, rollback guidance, and production-readiness controls support practical implementation.
By completing the book, you will understand how to build Python AI agents whose authority, evidence, memory, actions, costs, and failures remain visible and controlled. That capability matters whether you are developing customer-support automation, IT operations tools, research systems, document workflows, or internal business applications.
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