AI Agents: The Definitive Guide: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation for Production by Koenigstein, Nicole
AI Agents: The Definitive Guide: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation for Production by Koenigstein, Nicole

AI Agents: The Definitive Guide: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation for Production

As AI agents move from research labs into production, engineering teams face mounting challenges--fragile tools, rising inference...
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AI Agents: The Definitive Guide: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation for Production by Koenigstein, Nicole

AI Agents: The Definitive Guide: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation for Production

$95.98
AI Agents: The Definitive Guide: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation for Production by Koenigstein, Nicole

AI Agents: The Definitive Guide: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation for Production

$95.98
Author: Nicole Koenigstein
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

As AI agents move from research labs into production, engineering teams face mounting challenges--fragile tools, rising inference costs, erratic behavior, and unmet expectations. AI Agents: The Definitive Guide addresses what most books avoid: how to design, deploy, and maintain real AI agents that actually work in the real world, not just in demos. Written by Nicole Koenigstein, this book offers the practical, system-level foundations needed to build robust, scalable, and secure agentic systems.

Whether you're tasked with making agent prototypes production-ready or building mission-critical automation from the ground up, this book guides you through every layer of the stack, without being framework-dependent. It covers architectures, tool integration, performance optimization, safety strategies, and advanced evaluation, with a relentless focus on reliability and long-term value.

  • Design stateful, reasoning, and multi-agent systems
  • Apply reinforcement learning, search, and test-time compute
  • Build reliable tool integration and execution boundaries
  • Evaluate agents across development and production
  • Design memory, monitoring, fallbacks, and efficient infrastructure
  • Secure agents through isolation, governance, and threat modeling


Author: Nicole Koenigstein
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 10/06/2026
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.19h x 7.00w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9798341666931

About the Author
Koenigstein, Nicole: - Nicole Koenigstein is an AI researcher and practitioner in agentic systems, working across research, consulting, teaching, and direct system implementation to build reliable, production-ready AI systems. Her work focuses on multi-agent architectures, evaluation, safety, and long-term system behavior.

She served as an external evaluator for a European Commission AI Grand Challenge and has advised IOSCO on generative AI in regulated environments. She also serves on advisory boards for leading AI and quantitative finance conferences. Nicole regularly delivers invited talks and technical workshops across academia, industry, and international events.

She is the author of Math for Machine Learning and Transformers in Action with Manning Publications. Her forthcoming books, Transformers: The Definitive Guide--Applications Beyond NLP and AI Agents: The Definitive Guide, will be published by O'Reilly Media.
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