AI Consulting · Skills & Agents
Agentic AI engineering, patterned.
I build production AI skills and agents — and I document the discipline. The Agentic AI Series is a seventeen-volume, Fowler-style catalog of the patterns that make agents work: 306 entries, each with intent, motivating problem, mechanics, and when to use it.
The practice
What I do
Build skills
Production Claude Skills and agent capabilities — packaged, evaluated, and shipped as reusable SKILL.md units your team can run.
Build agents
End-to-end agentic systems: workflow design, tools and MCP, memory, retrieval, multi-agent coordination, and the guardrails to run them in production.
Architect & advise
Pattern-level review of an existing agent stack — what to keep, what to promote, where the cost and the risk actually live.
The reference work
The Agentic AI Series
A working library for agentic AI engineering — modeled on Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Every pattern in the same template, so an architecture decision fits in a single sentence: “Prompt Chaining for ingestion, Orchestrator–Workers for the merge, a Human-in-the-Loop Checkpoint before commit.”
Browse all volumes →The map
Five clusters
Workflow & Primitives
The foundational primitives — what agents do, what they use, what triggers them.
01020304 Cluster IIInfrastructure
The substrate on which agents run — memory, fabric, multi-agent coordination, human-in-the-loop, evaluation.
0506070809 Cluster IIIContext & Content
What agents work with — retrieved knowledge, prompts, context windows.
1015 Cluster IVNon-Functional Concerns
Compliance, security, ops, economics — the substrate that makes production agents possible.
11121617 Cluster VUX & Products
The user-facing surfaces of agents and the product landscape.
1314Where to start
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