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AI Agents: The Definitive Guide
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AI Agents: The Definitive Guide

by Nicole Koenigstein
October 2026
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
6h 18m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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About the Author

Nicole Koenigstein is an AI researcher and practitioner in agentic systems, working across research, consulting, teaching, and direct system implementation to build reliable, production-ready AI systems. Her work focuses on multi-agent architectures, evaluation, safety, and long-term system behavior.

She served as an external evaluator for a European Commission AI Grand Challenge and has advised IOSCO on generative AI in regulated environments. She also serves on advisory boards for leading AI and quantitative finance conferences. Nicole regularly delivers invited talks and technical workshops across academia, industry, and international events.

She is the author of Math for Machine Learning and Transformers in Action with Manning Publications. Her forthcoming books, Transformers: The Definitive Guide—Applications Beyond NLP and AI Agents: The Definitive Guide, will be published by O’Reilly Media.

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