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Skills to Build AI Agents

Source: 7 Skills You Need to Build AI Agents - IBM

Skills that are used during agent design and build.

  1. System Design - how data is used and designed, data flows, and infrastructure of a solution
  2. Tool and Contract design - Actions use tools and tools have contracts to be precise for high accuracy
  3. Retrieval Engineering - Use retrieval augmented generation (RAG) by getting relevant data. Split documents into chunks sized for relevance. Choose proper embedding model and re-ranking.
  4. Reliability Engineering - management of API calls like retry logic, timeouts, alternative options, monitoring
  5. Security - reduce risks like detecting prompt injection, permission control of agent required for job, input validation, output filters
  6. Evaluation and Monitoring (Observability) - metrics, log agent activity, automated tests
  7. Product Management - communication with people, understand user needs, user experience design