Building Autonomous AI Agents with Claude AI (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. AI assistants answer questions. Autonomous AI agents are designed to pursue goals, make decisions, use tools, observe results, and continue working across multiple steps.Building Autonomous AI Agents with Claude AI is a practical guide to designing, building, evaluating, and operating AI agents that can perform complex tasks with controlled autonomy.You will begin by learning what actually makes a system an AI agent, how agents differ from chatbots and ordinary API calls, and when an agent is genuinely necessary. The book introduces the autonomy spectrum and shows how to choose an appropriate level of independence based on risk, reversibility, and the cost of human review.You will then learn the reason-act-observe loop behind autonomous agents. The book explains how agents decide what to do, call tools, receive results, continue or stop, and handle failures. You will learn how to design purpose-built tools, create reliable schemas, use the Model Context Protocol, and test tools before allowing an agent to operate with them.The next stage covers AI agent orchestration and complex multi-step tasks. Learn how to break goals into executable steps, delegate work to sub-agents, choose between plan-then-execute and interleaved planning, manage persistent state, distinguish memory from context, prevent state drift, resume long-running tasks, and handle failures without creating worse outcomes.The book then focuses on AI agent safety and production engineering: permissions, least privilege, approval gates, sandboxing, human-in-the-loop controls, audit logs, evaluation datasets, regression testing, human baselines, observability, cost management, latency, incremental deployment, model upgrades, and behavioral drift.This book is written for developers, AI engineers, software architects, technical founders, and builders who want to move beyond simple prompts and create autonomous AI agents capable of performing real multi-step work.The goal is not maximum autonomy.The goal is useful autonomy that can be understood, evaluated, controlled, and trusted. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Building Autonomous AI Agents with Claude AI (Paperback)
- Author
- Nolan M. Stark
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798193167945
AI assistants answer questions. Autonomous AI agents are designed to pursue goals, make decisions, use tools, observe results, and continue working across multiple steps.
Building Autonomous AI Agents with Claude AI is a practical guide to designing, building, evaluating, and operating AI agents that can perform complex tasks with controlled autonomy.
You will begin by learning what actually makes a system an AI agent, how agents differ from chatbots and ordinary API calls, and when an agent is genuinely necessary. The book introduces the autonomy spectrum and shows how to choose an appropriate level of independence based on risk, reversibility, and the cost of human review.
You will then learn the reason-act-observe loop behind autonomous agents. The book explains how agents decide what to do, call tools, receive results, continue or stop, and handle failures. You will learn how to design purpose-built tools, create reliable schemas, use the Model Context Protocol, and test tools before allowing an agent to operate with them.
The next stage covers AI agent orchestration and complex multi-step tasks. Learn how to break goals into executable steps, delegate work to sub-agents, choose between plan-then-execute and interleaved planning, manage persistent state, distinguish memory from context, prevent state drift, resume long-running tasks, and handle failures without creating worse outcomes.
The book then focuses on AI agent safety and production engineering: permissions, least privilege, approval gates, sandboxing, human-in-the-loop controls, audit logs, evaluation datasets, regression testing, human baselines, observability, cost management, latency, incremental deployment, model upgrades, and behavioral drift.
This book is written for developers, AI engineers, software architects, technical founders, and builders who want to move beyond simple prompts and create autonomous AI agents capable of performing real multi-step work.
The goal is not maximum autonomy.
The goal is useful autonomy that can be understood, evaluated, controlled, and trusted.
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