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Appendices Index

Version: 1.0 Last updated: February 2026

This index provides quick access to all appendix materials for the Agentic AI Builder's Handbook.

Appendix Files

Appendix Title Description
Appendix A Production Challenges, Checklists and Templates What blocks agents from scaling, plus design, launch, incident, evaluation, governance, and cost checklists
Appendix B HR Leave Agent — Complete Reference Consolidated HR Leave examples, production patterns, and artifacts
Appendix C HR Leave Agent — Prompts and Evaluation Rubrics Production-ready prompts, LLM judge rubrics, and composite evaluation config
Appendix D HR Leave Agent — Synthetic Datasets Golden sets, edge cases, adversarial cases, regression cases, and generation scripts
Appendix E HR Leave Agent — Code Reference State machine scaffold, tool patterns, evaluation harness, and companion repository
Appendix F Evaluation Quick-Reference and Source Map Copy-paste templates (metrics registry, gate policy, synthetic data), Chapter 7/8/11/12 source reference maps
Appendix G Agent Extension Points Tools, Skills, Hooks, MCP, and Subagents — comparison, composition, and decision framework
Appendix H Cross-Reference Index Topic-to-chapter mapping and reading paths
Appendix I Glossary Key terms and definitions

Quick Access by Use Case

Building a new agent:

  • Start with Appendix B for a complete reference implementation
  • Use Appendix A §A.5 for design checklist
  • See Appendix E for code templates and companion repository
  • See Appendix G for choosing between tools, skills, hooks, MCP, and subagents

Taking an agent to production:

Setting up evaluation:

  • See Appendix C for prompts and LLM judge rubrics
  • See Appendix D for synthetic test datasets
  • See Appendix F for metrics registry and gate policy templates

Setting up governance:

Responding to an incident:

Finding related content:

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