Working library

Read, build,
verify

Books, open guides, standards, and benchmarks for designing and evaluating AI coding agents.

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A working shelf rather than an endless link list—from agent-system design to reproducible result verification.

Books and engineering guides

Book · O’Reilly

AI Engineering

Chip Huyen

Building applications with foundation models: evaluation, prompt engineering, RAG, agents, latency, and cost trade-offs.

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Open book · GitHub

深入理解 AI Agent

Bo Jie Li

An open book on AI-agent design: planning, memory, tools, multi-agent systems, and engineering practice.

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Practical repository

Everything Claude Code

Affaan Mustafa

Skills, security practices, memory, and research-first workflows for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other harnesses.

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Architecture and standards

Guide · Anthropic

Building Effective Agents

Anthropic

When to use workflows versus agents, with routing, parallelization, orchestrator-workers, and evaluator-optimizer patterns.

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Documentation · OpenAI

Agents guide

OpenAI

Official guidance for agents, tools, orchestration, tracing, and safety controls.

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Open standard

Model Context Protocol

MCP

The protocol specification for connecting AI applications to data, tools, and external systems.

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Coding-agent evaluation

Benchmark · GitHub

SWE-bench

Princeton NLP

Real GitHub issues and repositories for testing whether models can resolve software-engineering tasks with reproducible evaluation.

Open resource
VOLY methodology

How we verify ‘done’

VOLY Research

Our metrics, compared architectures, and protocol from agent report to accepted change.

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