Welcome to Day 8! We’ve spent the first seven days exploring what agents are, how they work, and how you can use them in your day-to-day life.

For those who want to go deeper this weekend, here’s a curated set of excellent whitepapers that expand on many of the topics we’ve covered so far. If you have plans this weekend, you can bookmark them for later.

🧠 What You’ll Learn Today

• Where to go next if you want a deeper understanding
• Five foundational papers on the agent ecosystem
• How tools, memory, context, quality, and shipping actually work under the hood

📚 Weekend Deep Dive: Agent Whitepapers Worth Reading

These papers expand on the concepts we’ve explored with more depth than your humble author can provide.

1️⃣ Introduction to Agents: What agents are, how they differ from other AI systems, and why they matter.

2️⃣ Agent Tools & Interoperability (MCP): How agents connect to applications, use tools, and interact safely with the outside world.

3️⃣ Context Engineering, Sessions & Memory: How agents maintain context, manage memory, and personalize their behavior over time.

4️⃣ Agent Quality: How to evaluate agents, measure performance, and improve quality.

5️⃣ From Prototype to Production: How to take an agent from a simple demo to a reliable system used by real people or teams.

Pick one… or all five.

✍️ Quick Recap

• This weekend is a chance to go deeper
• These papers expand the concepts we introduced this week

📬 Keep the Streak Going

Next up: the home stretch!

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