AI Agents in Action (Unabridged‪)‬

Create LLM-powered autonomous agents and intelligent assistants tailored to your business and personal needs.

From script-free customer service chatbots to fully independent agents operating seamlessly in the background, AI-powered assistants represent a breakthrough in machine intelligence. In AI Agents in Action, you'll master a proven framework for developing practical agents that handle real-world business and personal tasks.

Author Micheal Lanham combines cutting-edge academic research with hands-on experience to help you:

Understand and implement AI agent behavior patterns
Design and deploy production-ready intelligent agents
Leverage the OpenAI Assistants API and complementary tools
Implement robust knowledge management and memory systems
Create self-improving agents with feedback loops
Orchestrate collaborative multi-agent systems
Enhance agents with speech and vision capabilities


This book teaches you to build trustworthy AI capable of handling high-stakes negotiations. You'll master prompt engineering to create agents with distinct personas and profiles, and develop multi-agent collaborations that thrive in unpredictable environments. Beyond just learning a new technology, you'll discover a transformative approach to problem-solving.

About the technology: Most production AI systems require many orchestrated interactions between the user, AI models, and a wide variety of data sources. AI agents capture and organize these interactions into autonomous components that can process information, make decisions, and learn from interactions behind the scenes. This book will show you how to create AI agents and connect them together into powerful multi-agent systems.

About the author: Micheal Lanham is a software and technology innovator with over 20 years of industry experience. He has authored books on deep learning, including Manning’s Evolutionary Deep Learning.