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Agentic Software Development: Don't Get Left Behind

A Practical Guide to Building with Claude Code, MCP, the Claude API, and the Agent SDK

A hands-on guide to building with Claude Code, MCP, the Claude API, and the Agent SDK. From mental models to production architectures — everything an experienced developer needs to work agentically, not just use AI tools.

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Software development changed. Not incrementally — fundamentally.

Between 2025 and 2026, AI tools crossed a threshold: from autocomplete assistants to autonomous agents that plan, execute, test, and iterate on their own. The developers who understood this shift early didn't just get faster — they started

working at a completely different level.

This book is your guide to that level.

"Agentic Software Development" takes you on a progressive journey through the Claude ecosystem — from understanding the paradigm shift, to mastering Claude Code as your daily development OS, to building custom agents and multi-agent systems,

to deploying them in production CI/CD pipelines.

You'll learn:

- Why copilots and agents are fundamentally different — and what experienced devs need to unlearn

- How to use Claude Code at an advanced level: CLAUDE.md as architecture, hooks, sub-agents, worktrees

- How to design prompt systems (not just prompts) that produce reliable agent behavior

- How to build MCP servers that connect agents to your databases, APIs, and monitoring

- How to use the Claude API and Agent SDK to build autonomous agents programmatically

- Multi-agent orchestration patterns: supervisor, pipeline, and swarm — and when each one fits

- Three complete production architectures: code review, deploy/rollback, and data pipeline investigation

- How to integrate agents into CI/CD, secure them for production, and get your team on board

Written for experienced developers who already code daily. No hand-holding, no hype — just pragmatic, technical content with working code examples throughout.

The gap between "AI-curious" and "agentic-native" teams is growing. This book puts you on the right side.

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CAIO INCAU

aio Incau é Engineering Manager com experiência liderando times de engenharia de software em larga escala. No dia a dia, combina gestão de pessoas com profundidade técnica para entregar produtos que impactam milhões de usuários. Começou a usar Claude Code por curiosidade, virou adepto por produtividade, e escreveu este livro para que outros desenvolvedores não precisem descobrir tudo sozinhos.                

                                                                                                                              

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Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Part I — The Paradigm
    • Chapter 1 — The Agentic Shift
    • Chapter 2 — The Claude Ecosystem
    • Chapter 3 — Thinking in Agents
  • Part II — The Foundation
    • Chapter 4 — Claude Code Mastery
    • Chapter 5 — Prompt Architecture
    • Chapter 6 — MCP: The Integration Layer
  • Part III — Building Agents
    • Chapter 7 — The Claude API
    • Chapter 8 — Agent SDK Fundamentals
    • Chapter 9 — Multi-Agent Orchestration
    • Chapter 10 — Real-World Agent Architectures
  • Part IV — Production
    • Chapter 11 — Agentic CI/CD
    • Chapter 12 — Security and Governance
    • Chapter 13 — Team Adoption
    • Chapter 14 — What's Next

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