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  1. Claude Code: From Basics to Mastery
    Claude Code: From Basics to Mastery
    The Complete Guide to Agentic Software Development in 2026
    Steve Publications

    Software development is changing fast, and Claude Code is at the center of that shift. Learn how to work effectively with AI agents to write code, automate workflows, and build larger projects with confidence. From setup and prompt design to real-world engineering practices, this book provides a practical guide to modern software development in 2026.

  2. Graph Engineering for AI Agents
    Graph Engineering for AI Agents
    Building Reliable, Scalable Agent Systems with Computational Graphs
    Steve Publications

    AI agents become truly powerful when they can reason, adapt and recover instead of following a fixed sequence of steps. This book shows you how to design intelligent agent systems with computational graphs, giving you the tools to build scalable, reliable applications that can handle real-world complexity with confidence.

  3. Reverse Engineering with Claude Code
    Reverse Engineering with Claude Code
    AI-Assisted Analysis, Understanding, and Reconstruction of Software Systems
    Steve Publications

    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.

  4. Local AI Search Engine
    Local AI Search Engine
    Building Intelligent Document Retrieval Systems from Scratch
    Steve Publications

    Learn how to build a fast, private AI search engine that indexes and retrieves documents using modern open-source tools. From a simple prototype to a production-ready system, you will create intelligent local search that runs entirely on your own hardware.

  5. The Local LLM Engineer
    The Local LLM Engineer
    Steve Publications

    This book is a practical guide to building and running local AI systems in 2026. Learn how to choose hardware, run modern LLMs, build RAG pipelines and AI agents, and deploy secure, efficient infrastructure while keeping full control of your models and data.

  6. Codex CLI: The Definitive Guide
    Codex CLI: The Definitive Guide
    From First Prompt to Production Workflows
    Steve Publications

    Master Codex CLI from your first prompt to production-ready AI workflows. Learn how to automate coding, streamline development, and use OpenAI's terminal-native coding agent with confidence.

  7. PydanticAI: Building Production-Grade AI Agents
    PydanticAI: Building Production-Grade AI Agents
    From Fundamentals to Advanced Agent Workflows with Python's Type-Safe Framework
    Steve Publications

    Learn how to build reliable AI agents with PydanticAI, from simple chatbots to production-ready multi-agent systems. With practical examples, clear explanations, and hands-on projects, this book helps you write AI applications that are structured, testable, and easy to maintain.

  8. Behavior-Driven Development for AI Agents
    Behavior-Driven Development for AI Agents
    A Complete Guide to Specification-First Software Engineering with Autonomous Coding Systems
    Steve Publications

    AI coding agents can move fast, but speed without clear intent creates expensive mistakes. This practical guide shows how Behavior-Driven Development turns specifications into a reliable contract between you and autonomous coding systems, helping agents build the right thing, catch problems earlier and produce software you can trust.

  9. Engineering Memory for AI Agents
    Engineering Memory for AI Agents
    From First Principles to Production Systems
    Steve Publications

    AI agents don’t fail because they forget everything. They fail because they remember badly. This book shows you how to engineer memory that stays accurate, efficient and useful over time. From SQLite and PostgreSQL to vector indexes and multi-agent systems, you’ll learn what it takes to build agents that can run for days without losing the plot.

  10. Building Production-Ready AI Agents with LlamaIndex
    Building Production-Ready AI Agents with LlamaIndex
    From First Query to Multi-Agent Systems: A Practical Guide for Python Developers
    Steve Publications

    Go beyond simple chatbots and build production-ready AI agents with LlamaIndex. Through practical projects and working Python code, you will learn to design reliable systems with retrieval, workflows, multi-agent architectures, observability, and deployment techniques for real-world applications.

  11. Fact-Based Agents
    Fact-Based Agents
    ORM 2, FORML and Factum for agentic memory.
    Volodymyr Pavlyshyn

    Coding agents reconstruct your domain from schemas and code, and nothing on disk disagrees with them. This book gives them something that does: an ORM 2 conceptual schema that verbalizes into checkable English. 18 chapters, 61 diagrams, 38 working models, and a promise graph for multi-agent work.

  12. Local-First AI Engineering
    Local-First AI Engineering
    Running Agents Without the Cloud
    Steve Publications

    Build AI that keeps working when the cloud doesn't. Local-First AI Engineering shows you how to run capable, private AI systems on infrastructure you control. From hardware and inference to RAG, agents, security and production ops, you'll learn how to build local AI that is fast, reliable and truly yours.

  13. Building Autonomous IT Operations Agents with MCP
    Building Autonomous IT Operations Agents with MCP
    A Practical Guide to Designing, Deploying, and Operating Production-Grade Agentic AI for IT Infrastructure
    Steve Publications

    Move beyond AI demos and build agents that can actually run IT operations. This practical guide takes you from MCP fundamentals to production-ready monitoring, incident response, remediation, Kubernetes operations, security and multi-agent systems, with complete runnable code and a strong focus on safe autonomy.

  14. Fine-Tuning Small Language Models for Local AI Agents
    Fine-Tuning Small Language Models for Local AI Agents
    A Practical Guide to Building Specialized Agentic Systems on Your Own Hardware
    Steve Publications

    Turn a small language model into an AI agent that runs on your own hardware. This practical guide takes you from choosing a base model to fine-tuning, tool use, evaluation and deployment. With reproducible code and real configurations throughout, you'll learn how to build specialized local agents that are capable, efficient and truly yours.

  15. Specification Engineering
    Specification Engineering
    The Complete Guide to Principles, Strategies, Methods, and Practical Application
    Steve Publications

    Specification Engineering turns complex ideas into clear, workable specifications. This practical guide takes you from core principles to advanced methods for defining, validating, managing and evolving requirements across products, software, systems and services. Built for real-world use, it gives you the tools to create specifications that people can understand and act on.