20 Essential Agent Engineering Concepts for 2026: Making Agents Practical, Scalable, and Deployable
The article breaks down ten core engineering pillars for production‑grade AI agents—including tool calling with MCP, reusable skills, persistent memory, multi‑agent collaboration, workflow orchestration, hooks, observability, sandboxing, prompt‑injection defense, and the role of forward‑deployed engineers—to help turn demo agents into reliable, enterprise‑ready systems.
