AI Agents & Automation

OECD: The agentic AI landscape and its conceptual foundations (Research Paper) (2026)

You want to start approaching Agents and Agentic AI by understanding their characteristics, how they are defined and differentiated and what concepts they are based upon. This OECD publication does all of this and more in a concise and well-written manner.

Anthropic: Building effective agents (Practice Guide) (2024)

A beginner-friendly guide explaining agent design patterns, when to use agents, tool use, workflows, and evaluation. While it is not the most up-to-date publication on the topic, I still find this to be one of the best introductions to building agents and it still holds up perfectly.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

The de-facto standard open protocol for connecting AI applications to tools, data sources, and external systems. Strong adoption (e.g. Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Replit). This site by LF Projects, LLC has everything you need to develop with MCP.

OpenAI Agents SDK

Framework for building agentic applications with tool use, handoffs, tracing, and structured workflows. Enables (almost) everyone to build multi-agent workflows. OpenAI’s site is comprehensive and covers all relevant aspects.

LangChain: LangGraph

Open‑source Python framework for complex multi‑agent workflows with persistent state management, built as an extension of LangChain. Enables structured agent coordination, deterministic execution, and scalable production‑grade graph architectures

CrewAI

Langgraph is not the only helpful framework on the market. Here is another framework for role-based multi-agent collaboration, task delegation, processes, and enterprise automation workflows. They differ in some aspects – check out the many comparisons online for your pick.

Microsoft: AutoGen

Open‑source framework by Microsoft for building coordinated multi‑agent systems through structured dialogue, role‑based collaboration. Enables controlled task delegation, flexible orchestration, and reproducible workflows.

OpenHands

Open‑source agentic coding system designed for autonomous software engineering, combining LLM‑driven reasoning with real execution environments. Runs agents that complete entire coding tasks

OWASP: State of Agentic AI Security and Governance 2.01 (2026)

Every single role involved in AI agents and Agentic AI should – in my view – have a basic understanding of the security risks. If you need a comprehensive, hands-on report on securing and governing autonomous AI systems, this is it. As simple as this.

Philipp’s pick: IMDA: Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI (2026)

Sure, this governance framework might not be of interest for everyone. But it is the world’s first attempt (at least from an official state authority) to proposa a way to actually govern Agentic AI and the current updates led to more refined and extended content. One of a kind.