Agentic AI Mastery

Stop chatting with AI. Start building agents that do the work. Agentic AI is the biggest shift since ChatGPT arrived. Instead of answering one question at a time, an AI agent takes a goal, plans its own steps, uses tools such as web search, email, files and your business apps, checks its results, and keeps going until the job is done. Agentic AI Mastery is a practical, step-by-step guide to building those agents with the two leading AI platforms: Claude by Anthropic and ChatGPT by OpenAI. You start with no code at all and finish by building, testing and deploying your own agent programs in Python. Inside, you will learn how to: Understand the agent loop (think, act, observe, repeat) and the six building blocks of every agent Build no-code agents with Claude Projects, Skills, connectors and scheduled tasks, and with ChatGPT Work and plugins Write instructions and tool descriptions that make agents reliable Code your first agent on the Claude API and the OpenAI Responses API, with complete working examples Build faster with the Claude Agent SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK Connect agents to any app or database with MCP, the Model Context Protocol Give agents memory and let them answer from your own documents Design multi-agent systems with handoffs, orchestrators and sub-agents Test agents, guard against prompt injection, and keep costs under control Deploy agents as web services or scheduled jobs Every chapter ends with a hands-on exercise. The book closes with four capstone projects and a 30-day mastery plan, so you finish with real, working agents rather than just theory. Written for business owners, professionals and curious beginners. No programming experience is needed to start.