Vertex AI Agent Development Kit

"Vertex AI Agent Development Kit: From Prototype Agents to Governed Enterprise Deployments"
This book is for experienced AI engineers, platform architects, security leaders, and senior developers who need to move beyond demos and build agent systems that can survive real enterprise scrutiny. Rather than treating agents as prompt wrappers, it frames Vertex AI Agent Development Kit and Agent Engine as an engineering platform with architectural boundaries, runtime contracts, and operational consequences that must be understood before deployment at scale.
Across the book, readers learn how to design reliable agent behavior, choose and govern models, structure tools and external actions, manage sessions and durable memory, and translate local prototypes into managed runtime deployments. It also covers observability, evaluation, release governance, enterprise security architecture, and compliance evidence, showing how to make agent behavior measurable, auditable, and controllable. Special attention is given to callbacks, plugins, policy enforcement, multi-agent decomposition, and the trade-offs that shape safe production systems.
The treatment is technical, architecture-first, and intended for readers already comfortable with cloud platforms, APIs, and modern ML application design. Organized from platform foundations through advanced operating models, the book distinguishes transient implementation details from durable guidance, helping teams build agents that are not only capable, but governable, supportable, and fit for regulated or high-stakes environments.