From Prompts to Production: a Playbook for Agentic Development
Summary
Read this playbook to apply a new agentic software development life cycle (ASDLC) that treats agent behavior, safety constraints, prompts, tool manifests, policy configs, memory, and evaluation datasets as versioned infrastructure. Implement common agentic patterns such as ReAct, Supervisor, hierarchical teams, and human-in-the-loop while choosing deterministic vs. nondeterministic workflow boundaries to optimize cost, latency, and reliability. Treat prompts and tool manifests as Infrastructure-as-Code, use golden trajectories for behavioral regression testing, and adopt property-based, metamorphic, and behavioral test harnesses to validate nondeterministic behaviors. Use vendor-neutral standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and structured tracing (e.g., LangSmith) to reduce integration effort, improve observability, and enable safe progressive deployment of agentic systems.
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