Building an Agentic System: GitHub

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This guide is a deep dive into building an agentic system, focusing on the practical aspects of creating self-driving coding agents and execution engines. The author built this guide while developing highly specialized vertical agents, and it covers topics such as responsive interactions, parallel execution, permission systems, and tool architecture.

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The guide provides a high-level overview of system architecture, delves into specific components based on immediate challenges, and offers implementation details for the tool and command system. It emphasizes concrete engineering patterns rather than theoretical machine learning concepts.

Key concepts discussed include:

1. Responsive Interactions - Techniques for building systems that stream partial results instead of making users wait for complete responses.

2. Parallel Execution - Methods for running operations concurrently without sacrificing safety.

3. Permission Systems - Implementation of guardrails to prevent agents from taking unauthorized actions.

4. Tool Architecture - Creation of extensible frameworks for agents to interact with the environment.

   
   

The guide also includes documentation on every tool and command, providing implementation details and explaining why certain architectural decisions were made. It references both Claude Code architecture and anon-kode, a fork of Claude Code, offering hands-on experience with the concepts described.