Appendices
Appendices#
The main chapters provide the shortest path through the book and the course project. The appendices preserve deeper methods, implementation details, and research cases that are useful when a particular problem calls for them but are not prerequisites for following the main argument.
Use them selectively:
- Evaluating agentic workflows develops the evaluation vocabulary, experimental discipline, graders, uncertainty, and routing questions introduced briefly in the Benchmarking chapter.
- Reproducible environments distinguishes repeatable setup, declared environments, hermetic execution, and reproducible builds.
- Advanced web boundaries examines state continuity, transactions, client activation, constructive invariants, runtime-generated interfaces, interaction styles, and executable HTTP contracts.
- Agent-system security develops control planes, enforcement, traceability, imported capabilities, and cross-run state.
- Scalability models gives a deeper treatment of workflow reliability and contention models.
- Durable workflows examines retry-safe external effects and recovery across process failure.
Each appendix states the question it helps answer and links its method back to the relevant chapter or project decision.