Agentic Engineering Book | Jaymin West

Agentic Engineering

Foundations Twelve Leverage Points of Agentic Coding

Prompt Prompt Types Prompt Structuring Prompt Language

Model Model Selection Model Behavior Model Limitations and Workarounds Multi-Model Architectures Model Evaluation for Agents

Context Context Fundamentals Context Management Strategies Advanced Context Patterns Multi-Agent Context Context Management Architectures Context at Codebase Scale

Tool Use Tool Design Tool Selection and Routing Tool Restrictions and Security Scaling Tool Use Skills and Meta-Tools

Harnesses What Is a Harness?The Harness Stack Harness Categories Harness as Control System Harness Engineering Security, Permissions, and Trust Designing for Your Context

Patterns Plan-Build-Review Pattern Self-Improving Expert Commands Orchestrator Pattern Autonomous Loops (Ralph Wiggum)ReAct Pattern Human-in-the-Loop Pattern Progressive Disclosure Pattern Expert Swarm Pattern Multi-Agent Collaboration Pattern The Multi-Agent Landscape Production Multi-Agent Systems

Practices Debugging Agents Evaluation Cost and Latency Production Concerns Workflow Coordination for Agents Knowledge Evolution Operating Agent Swarms

Mental Models Pit of Success Prompt Maturity Model Specs as Source Code Context as Code Execution Topologies Design as Bottleneck Software Factories

Practitioner Toolkit Claude Code Google ADK IDE Integrations Agent Frameworks Multi-Agent Workspace Managers Enterprise Codebase Context Tools

Agent Readiness The Four Surfaces Failure Modes Readiness Principles Dimensions of Readiness Ratcheting and Legacy Software Ecology

Long-Horizon Agent State The Five-Layer Model The Composition Loop Memory and Intent Coordination and Orchestration From Factory to Institution