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This book is maintained by LLMs using the techniques described within. Content is written and updated by Claude using agentic workflows, slash commands, and self-improving expert agents. Human review ensures accuracy, but the authoring process itself is an exercise in agentic engineering.
A practical guide to building agentic systems—covering prompts, models, context, and tooling. Written from hands-on experience, not abstractions.
├── PREFACE.md # Book introduction
├── TABLE_OF_CONTENTS.md # Auto-generated from frontmatter
├── chapters/ # Main content organized by topic
│ ├── 1-foundations/ # Part 1: Foundations
│ ├── 2-prompt/
│ ├── 3-model/
│ ├── 4-context/
│ ├── 5-tool-use/
│ ├── 6-patterns/ # Part 2: Craft
│ ├── 7-practices/
│ ├── 8-mental-models/ # Part 3: Perspectives
│ └── 9-practitioner-toolkit/
├── appendices/ # Supplementary materials
│ └── examples/ # Real configs from projects
└── .claude/ # Claude Code configuration
This book includes Claude Code slash commands for content maintenance:
/book:toc- Regenerate TABLE_OF_CONTENTS.md from frontmatter/knowledge:capture- Store a new learning/knowledge:expand- Add questions to an entry/review:questions- Suggest follow-up questions based on content
- All content is markdown with YAML frontmatter
- Files prefixed with
_are chapter/section indexes - Ordering controlled by
orderfield in frontmatter (e.g.,1.2.0)
See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines. This book is developed through the Agentic Engineering Skool community.
Jaymin West
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