Agentic AI Handbook: Design Patterns: Build an Agent AI that Thinks, Plans, and Delivers

by Mark Lane

Build AI Agents That Actually The Definitive Guide to Reliable LLM Systems and Agentic AIWhile many organizations struggle with hallucinating Large Language Models (LLMs) and unpredictable AI behavior, this groundbreaking handbook applies proven software engineering principles to create generative AI agents that think, plan, and reliably deliver results.

Written by Dr. Mark Lane, drawing on years of AI implementation experience, this comprehensive resource provides over 100 battle-tested design patterns for LLM-based systems that solve the most challenging problems in agentic AI development.This definitive handbook shows you exactly how

Enhance reasoning Implement Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thought patterns with Python examples that dramatically improve problem-solving accuracyEliminate LLM Create trustworthy AI with Self-Reflection and Validation patterns that provide factual outputsOrchestrate multi-agent AI Design specialized agents that collaborate through proven workflow orchestration patternsBuild sophisticated memory Keep context across conversations with advanced memory integration patterns for contextual awarenessImplement ethical Ensure compliance and safety with robust governance patterns for responsible AI alignmentPerfect

AI Engineers building the next generation of reliable LLM assistants and agentic systemsTechnical Leaders architecting complex, mission-critical AI applicationsProduct Managers overseeing AI-powered products that users actually trustResearchers seeking structured approaches to generative AI agent design challengesAI Enthusiasts seeking to understand how modern AI systems are engineered to be reliable and effectiveTransform your AI development from unpredictable experiments to engineered systems that consistently deliver value, from prompt engineering to production deployment.

Don't just follow the AI revolution—lead it with agentic LLM systems that actually work.

Kindle Edition

Published March 13, 2025

About the author

Biography
Mark Lane is an author, lawyer and activist. His was the first voice to publicly question the top secret investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and his bestselling book, Rush to Judgment, was one of the first to question the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. A Citizen's Dissent recounts the vast efforts of our government and the establishment media to suppress his investigation into the assassination of JFK and to silence and destroy him for his work. His later works on the JFK assassination detailed the involvement of the CIA through an actual trial in which Lane cross-examined multiple agents [Plausible Denial] and the role played by the CIA and Secret Service [Last Word]. He crossed the country speaking at countless colleges and other institutions about the murder of the president sparking the creation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which looked into the assassinations of Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A Freedom Rider while he served in the New York Legislature in 1961, he has defended the rights of the voiceless from his beginnings in East Harlem to Wounded Knee, where he successfully defended the leaders of the American Indian Movement. He freed James Joseph Richardson, a black man framed in rural Florida for the murder of his own seven children, from prison after serving over 20 years, many of them on death row [Arcadia]. He is a survivor of Jonestown [The Strongest Poison] and was a leader of the anti war movement during the Viet Nam era [Chicago Eyewitness; Conversations with Americans], Lane's autobiography, Citizen Lane, was published in 2012.