CITATION.cff

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title: "Building AI Agents — The Practical Guide"
message: "If you reference this guide, please cite it as below."
type: book
authors:
  - given-names: Fabian
    family-names: Bäumler
    affiliation: DeepThink AI
    email: labs@thnkdeep.ai
abstract: >
  A practical, production-oriented guide to architecting, building, and
  operating AI agents. Covers the 11 fundamental agentic patterns,
  agent architecture, memory and skills layers, performance optimization,
  retrieval-augmented generation, self-improving multi-agent systems,
  security, and deployment. Available in English and German.
keywords:
  - ai-agents
  - agentic-ai
  - llm
  - rag
  - multi-agent-systems
  - prompt-engineering
  - claude
  - gpt
  - mcp
  - production-ai
license: CC-BY-4.0
version: "1.4"
date-released: "2026-05-17"
url: "https://github.com/nkccorp12/ai-agents-practical-guide"
repository-code: "https://github.com/nkccorp12/ai-agents-practical-guide"