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agentic-ai-developer

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Guides hands-on development of agentic AI systems—agent loops (plan → act → observe), tool and MCP schemas, multi-agent orchestration and handoffs, state/checkpointing, HITL gates, agent prompts, reliability (retries, idempotency, cancellation), observability, trajectory evaluation, tool sandboxing, injection awareness, and deployment (API, queue, durable workflows). Framework-agnostic with optional LangGraph, Deep Agents, and Cursor SDK pointers—not full framework docs. Use for agentic AI, build an agent, agent loop, tool use, MCP integration, multi-agent, agent orchestration, LangGraph, agentic workflow, AI agent developer, agent handoff, agent memory, HITL agent, evaluate agent, or agentic application—not model training (ai-engineer), ML research (ai-researcher), product strategy only (cpo-advisor), architecture whiteboard only (agent-designer, external), generic backend without agent loops (senior-software-engineer), or red-team only (ai-redteam).

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    Avoid duplicate tool access unless idempotent.

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    Treat tool results and retrieved docs as untrusted input (injection aware)

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    Do not duplicate full framework tutorials—implement the contracts above in the stack the team chose.

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SKILL.md

Agentic AI Developer

When to Use

  • Implementing agent loops with tools: plan → act → observe → stop
  • Designing tool/MCP schemas, auth, timeouts, and sandbox boundaries
  • Building multi-agent workflows with routing, handoffs, and fan-out/fan-in
  • Persisting agent state, checkpoints, thread memory, and resume semantics
  • Adding human-in-the-loop approval, edit, or reject gates on risky tool calls
  • Hardening agents: retries, idempotency keys, cancellation, and budget caps
  • Instrumenting traces, spans, and trajectory logs for debugging and eval
  • Running trajectory evals, golden sets, and regression gates before release
  • Shipping agentic apps via API, queue workers, or durable workflow engines

When NOT to Use

  • Training or fine-tuning foundation models, classical ML pipelines → ai-engineer, ai-researcher
  • AI ops cadence, vendor contracts, rollout governance without implementation → ai-lead-ops
  • Internal developer platform, golden paths, Backstage—no agent runtime → platform-engineer
  • Generic service/API work with no agent loop, tools, or orchestration → senior-software-engineer
  • Adversarial red-team campaigns and jailbreak harnesses only → ai-redteam
  • Corporate AI policy, risk tiering, model cards without build → ai-risk-governance
  • Pre-flight architecture or production-readiness review without building → build-validator
  • Multi-agent system topology, routing, protocols, and fleet-level failure at architecture/engineering depth → multi-agent-system-engineer
  • High-level multi-agent whiteboard without implementation → agent-designer (external skill; use conceptually)

Related skills

NeedSkill
Broader LLM apps, RAG, model routing, cost/latencyai-engineer
AI production ops, incidents, release gatesai-lead-ops
Platform golden paths, IDP, developer portalsplatform-engineer
Service design, APIs, code quality without agent focussenior-software-engineer
Prompt injection, tool abuse, safety eval campaignsai-redteam
Governance, risk tiers, policy mappingai-risk-governance
Go/no-go plan or architecture validationbuild-validator
Persistent memory stores and retrieval designai-memory-developer
Context packing and token budgetingai-context-engineer
Prompt templates and judge rubricsprompt-engineer
Multi-agent system topology, routing, DAG, fleet observabilitymulti-agent-system-engineer
Multi-agent whiteboard without code (conceptual)agent-designer (external)

Core Workflows

1. Shape the agent runtime

  1. Define the user job, success metric, and stop conditions
  2. Choose runtime shape: single loop, supervisor + workers, or graph/DAG
  3. List tools/MCP servers; classify read vs write vs irreversible
  4. Set budgets: max steps, tokens, wall time, cost per session
  5. Decide checkpoint/resume and tenancy (thread_id, org_id)

See references/agentic_ai_developer_scope.md for scope boundaries and deliverables.

2. Implement loop + tools

receive task → plan (optional) → select tool → execute → observe → repeat | finalize

Checklist:

  • Tool schemas are narrow; descriptions say when not to call
  • Timeouts, retries, and idempotency on side effects
  • Errors surfaced once to the model; no infinite retry loops
  • Secrets never returned in tool results or traces

See references/agent_loop_tools_and_mcp.md for MCP and schema patterns.

3. Orchestrate multiple agents

  • Assign roles: planner, executor, critic, specialist
  • Handoff payload: goal, constraints, artifacts, open questions
  • Avoid duplicate tool access unless idempotent; centralize dangerous tools
  • Use fan-out/fan-in for parallel research; merge with structured reducer

See references/multi_agent_orchestration_and_handoffs.md for routing and handoff contracts. For system-level topology, fan-in policy, and cross-agent failure matrices, use multi-agent-system-engineer.

4. State, memory, and HITL

  • Separate ephemeral scratchpad vs durable thread state vs long-term memory
  • Checkpoint after each tool batch or subgraph node for resume
  • HITL on tier-2+ actions: approve, edit args, or reject with reason
  • Time out stalled human approvals; default-deny on expiry

See references/state_memory_and_hitl.md for checkpoint and approval patterns.

5. Reliability, observability, and evaluation

  • Trace: session_id, span per model/tool step, redacted inputs/outputs
  • Metrics: success rate, steps to completion, tool error rate, p95 latency, cost
  • Eval: golden trajectories, tool-call correctness, task success (human or judge)
  • Gate releases on regression suite; canary new prompts/graph versions

See references/reliability_observability_and_evaluation.md for eval and SLO patterns.

6. Security and production deployment

  • Sandboxed tool execution; least-privilege credentials per tool
  • Treat tool results and retrieved docs as untrusted input (injection aware)
  • Deploy: sync API for short tasks; queue or durable workflow for long runs
  • Kill switch, feature flags, and versioned prompts/graph definitions

See references/security_and_production_deployment.md for deployment topologies.

When to load references

TopicReference
Role scope, deliverables, boundariesreferences/agentic_ai_developer_scope.md
Agent loop, tools, MCPreferences/agent_loop_tools_and_mcp.md
Multi-agent routing and handoffsreferences/multi_agent_orchestration_and_handoffs.md
State, memory, checkpoints, HITLreferences/state_memory_and_hitl.md
Retries, tracing, trajectory evalreferences/reliability_observability_and_evaluation.md
Sandboxing, injection, deploymentreferences/security_and_production_deployment.md

Framework pointers (optional)

Use framework docs for API specifics; this skill stays pattern-first:

PatternTypical home
Stateful graph, interrupts, checkpointingLangGraph-style graphs
Subagents, filesystem memory, HITL middlewareDeep Agents-style harness
Programmatic cloud/local agents, MCP in CICursor SDK-style agents

Do not duplicate full framework tutorials—implement the contracts above in the stack the team chose.

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