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The Agent Engineering Skill Tree

Climb the treeline.

Agent engineering as a skill tree. Start at the roots, unlock your way up to the frontier: context, tools, the harness, evals, cost, and the cutting edge that shipped this quarter. Click any node. Each one names the real tool to use and the pack that goes deeper.

FoundationsContext & PromptTools & MCPLoop & MemoryHarness & ProductionFrontier
Frontier
Production
Core
Roots
Agent = Model + Harness
Foundations✓
The Agent Loop
Foundations✓
Context Is the Product
Foundations✓
When NOT to Build an Agent
Foundations✓
Prompt Engineering
Context & Prompt✓
Context Engineering
Context & Prompt✓
Context Budgeting
Context & Prompt✓
Prompt-Cache Economics
Context & Prompt✓
Context Packing
Context & Prompt✓
Tool Design
Tools & MCP✓
Tool-Description Engineering
Tools & MCP✓
MCP: the Standard
Tools & MCP✓
Deterministic Tool Access
Tools & MCP✓
ReAct & Reflexion
Loop & Memory✓
Stop Conditions
Loop & Memory✓
Loop Budgets
Loop & Memory✓
Memory Systems
Loop & Memory✓
Harness Engineering
Harness & Production✓
Guardrails & Governance
Harness & Production✓
Eval-Driven Development
Harness & Production✓
LLM-as-a-Judge
Harness & Production✓
Observability over Testing
Harness & Production✓
Cost & Model Routing
Harness & Production✓
Data Architecture (the 80%)
Harness & Production✓
Multi-Agent (when worth it)
Frontier✓
Sub-Agent Orchestration
Frontier✓
Extended-Thinking Patterns
Frontier✓
Computer Use & Browsing
Frontier✓
RAG, Done Right
Frontier✓
Frameworks vs Raw
Frontier✓
Portable by Design
Frontier✓
Agentic Commerce
Frontier✓