The Art of Agents: Sun Tzu's Principles for Building Agentic AI Systems
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The Art of Agents maps Sun Tzu's 13 chapters to practical rules for building agentic AI systems in production.
The book argues specs should be produced after experiments, making spec-driven development a living process.
It lists five core principles including distrust-by-design, tool-focused models, and treating learnings as the product.
The framework prescribes a continuous learning cycle and warns against common anti-patterns like trusting orchestrators or overloading context.