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# Agentic Ai Projects And Mastery

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1.1 Setting Up the Development Environment

Python project setup, virtual environments, and installing the OpenAI SDK, LangChain, and LangGraph so the rest of the book's code samples run without friction.

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1.2 Creating a Tool-Using Agent

Designing an agent from scratch — defining tools, wiring tool calling, building prompt templates, and generating a final response, without a framework in the way.

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1.3 Building Agents with LangGraph

Why LangGraph exists, its state-management model, nodes, edges, conditional routing, and how the execution flow maps onto the five-component agent loop.

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1.4 Testing and Debugging Agents

Unit testing tools in isolation, mocking LLM calls, debugging a live agent flow, and a troubleshooting guide for the failure scenarios that recur across every agent built in this book.

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2. Build an MCP Server

A guided, hands-on build of a Model Context Protocol server exposing a real tool (e.g., an observability query tool) with schema-validated inputs and outputs, deployable and testable end to end.

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3. Build an Agent with Memory

Hand-rolling short-term and long-term memory for an agent — SQLite-backed storage for conversation history and investigation history across sessions.

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4.1 Building an Operational Knowledge Base

Turning runbooks, playbooks, architecture documents, incident reports, and best practices into a RAG corpus an investigation agent can actually retrieve from.

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4.2 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Why RAG exists, document processing and chunking strategy, embeddings, vector database choice, and the retrieval pipeline that feeds relevant context into an agent's prompt.

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5. Build a Coding Agent

A guided, hands-on build of a coding agent that reads a repository, plans a change, edits files, and runs tests in a sandboxed loop with a human-review checkpoint before merge.

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6. Build a Multi-Agent System

A guided, hands-on build of a multi-agent system applying the supervisor and orchestrator-worker patterns from Part 00 of AI Architecture & System Design to a concrete task, with message-passing and failure-handling code.

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7.1 Connecting Agents to Grafana

Wiring an agent's tool layer to Grafana's HTTP API and Prometheus datasource — authentication, the metrics query surface, and the error handling an agent needs when a query fails mid-investigation.

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7.2 Building a Log Investigation Tool

Exposing Loki's API and LogQL as an agent tool — time-range filtering, log summarization, and pattern detection so an agent can search logs the way an SRE would.

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7.3 Building a Trace Investigation Tool

Exposing Tempo's trace retrieval API as an agent tool — span analysis, latency investigation, and service dependency analysis from a single trace ID.

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7.4 Automated Root Cause Analysis

Correlating metrics, logs, and traces into one evidence trail, scoring confidence in a candidate root cause, and generating an incident summary an on-call engineer can trust.

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8. Build an Enterprise AI Platform

A guided, hands-on build of a minimal enterprise AI platform slice - gateway, registry, and one deployed agent - wiring together the architecture covered in Part 01 of AI Architecture & System Design into working infrastructure.

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9. Production Deployment

Containerizing and deploying an agent through Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD — and the one thing that is actually agent-specific: versioning prompts and models as deploy artifacts.

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10. Capstone Project

Assembling every Part of this book into one deployable system — architecture, project structure, end-to-end workflow, RCA generation, dashboards, and deployment.

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