Books

88 per cent of AI agent projects never reach production, not because the model failed, but because the harness around it was never built. This is the practitioner's handbook for engineers who deploy AI inside real organisations, covering the complete journey from discovery to handover with harness engineering as the core technical discipline.

What happens when AI agents stop working alone and start working as a team?Artificial Intelligence is entering a new phase in which intelligent systems can do more than respond to individual instructions. Multiple specialized agents can collaborate, divide complex tasks, communicate with one another, use tools, evaluate results, and coordinate their actions toward a shared objective.Multi-Agent AI Systems: The Complete Handbook for Building Intelligent, Scalable, and Autonomous Agent Teams provides a practical roadmap for understanding this emerging paradigm.The book begins with the fundamentals of multi-agent systems and explains why collaboration between specialized agents can be valuable for complex workflows. Readers will learn about hierarchical, peer-to-peer, and hybrid architectures, along with roles such as manager, planner, worker, critic, and supervisor agents.It then moves into modern frameworks and technologies, including CrewAI, AutoGen, LangGraph, MetaGPT, LLMs, vector databases, and agent memory systems. Practical chapters explain how to design agent teams, decompose tasks, establish communication protocols, manage shared memory, coordinate workflows, integrate tools and APIs, and recover from failures.Readers will also explore advanced concepts such as dynamic replanning, parallel execution, swarm intelligence, agent debates, self-organizing systems, human-in-the-loop workflows, and multimodal agents.The book goes beyond experimentation and addresses the challenges of deploying multi-agent systems in real environments. Cloud deployment, Docker, Kubernetes, monitoring, logging, scaling, evaluation, benchmarking, testing, and cost optimization are included.Real-world applications demonstrate how agent teams can support software development, research, customer service, content creation, and business operations.Equally important, the book examines AI safety, privacy, security, transparency, governance, alignment, and responsible AI development.Whether you are a student discovering agentic AI, a developer building your first agent team, a researcher exploring collaborative intelligence, or a professional preparing for the next generation of AI applications, this book provides a foundation for moving from individual AI agents toward coordinated intelligent systems.Understand the architecture. Design the team. Build the agents. Coordinate the intelligence.

A working engineer's guide to building and maintaining production software with autonomous terminal coding agents (382 manuscript pages).

Go beyond prompts and learn how to build AI systems that hold up in production. This book shows how to make context the foundation of reliable LLM applications, covering practical patterns, real trade-offs and proven engineering techniques with clear examples you can put to work right away.

Build Claude into a reliable specialist for your domain. The Claude Skills Handbook takes you from the first idea through architecture, implementation, testing, security, deployment and monitoring, with practical patterns and working examples throughout. Learn how to build Skills that scale, stay maintainable and work in the real world.

Build AI agents that actually hold up in production. This practical guide covers agent architecture, tool use, multi-agent systems, security, reliability, observability and operations, with working code throughout. Learn how to build agents that are dependable, cost-aware and ready for the real world.

Build production-ready applications with TypeScript in the age of AI. Go beyond the basics to master type-safe development, modern full-stack architectures, LLMs, intelligent agents, tool calling and the Model Context Protocol. With practical, runnable examples throughout, this book shows you how to build, test, secure and deploy serious TypeScript AI systems.

Reverse engineering gets a powerful upgrade with Claude Code. Learn how to investigate, understand and reconstruct software you’re authorized to analyze, while keeping evidence, accuracy and reproducibility at the center. From legacy systems to modern codebases, this book turns AI into a practical partner for serious software analysis.

Build serious AI systems on NVIDIA DGX Spark with a practical guide that goes far beyond setup. Learn to deploy LLMs, create RAG pipelines, orchestrate AI agents, and optimize performance for real production workloads. Whether you are experimenting or scaling enterprise AI, this book shows you how to get there.

Learn how large language models work instead of relying on black-box APIs. Building Large Language Models from Scratch takes you through training a Transformer model in PyTorch, from raw text to a working inference API, covering tokenization, attention, distributed training, and alignment along the way.

Most developers use AI coding tools like better autocomplete. The 10x Developer's Cursor Playbook shows you how to use Cursor for agent workflows, refactoring, MCP integrations, collaboration and security so you can ship faster, write better code and get more out of AI.

As AI adoption accelerates, attacks such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, data poisoning, and agent exploitation are redefining cybersecurity. This book explains why these attacks work and provides practical strategies for building secure, resilient AI systems.

This book presents an architecture-first approach to designing trustworthy GenAI applications. Using Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) as a continuous case study, you will progressively build an AI-assisted investigation system. If you want to move beyond building AI applications that simply work, and start architecting AI systems that professionals can trust, this book is for you.

An accessible guide to how large language models become agents that can reason, use tools, remember, plan, interact with software, and collaborate with other agents. Written for readers who understand the basics of LLMs but do not want a mathematics-heavy treatment.

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.