Where do I find it

Where do I find…?

A lookup table across all four surfaces. If you know what you want but not where it is, start here.

Concepts

I want…	It is here
What an agent actually is, vs a workflow	Module 00 · Autonomy Ladder
How LLMs work, without maths	Module 01 · LLM Intuition Bank
What transfers off AWS	Portability matrix
The agentic PDLC, as one simulation	SkyWays, the agentic manual · ideas thread
A definition of a term	Glossary
Which AWS service does what	AWS service map

The manual: method, roles and process

I want…	It is here
The four phases and what each one owes the next	The Agentic PDLC
Which loop closes where, and who owns it	The Eight Loops
The five gates, and which ones are mine	Gates & Governance
The documents owed at each hand-off	The Evidence Pack
My whole role, end to end, with a template per step	PM · SA · Engineering · QA · DevOps
A prompt I can paste	Every prompt
A template for an artefact	Every template
What I am accountable for, and what I must not touch	PM · Architect · Engineering · QA · DevOps · Sponsor
How to derive an acceptance bar	Formulas & Calculators · How to Prove the Bar
Whether a score has actually proven the bar	How to Prove the Bar
Why the token bill left its estimate	How to Control the Token Bill
Where a cap should live	How to Hold the Security Boundary
How to run the postmortem	How to Run a Missing-Control Postmortem
How to run the NFR workshop	How to Run an NFR Workshop
How many agents this needs	How to Design an Agent on Paper · Decision Trees
How to unblock a review queue	How to Review by Risk Band
An intuition I can carry into a case this manual never covered	Mental Models
The whole thing explained to a CEO	The operating protocol
A term this manual uses oddly	Glossary
A case from my own industry	Scenario Library
Practice questions, with answers	Exercises & Answers
Whether a number here is a standard or a default	Sources & Confidence

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The nine how-tos, by symptom

A how-to is a procedure with an owner, a phase and a loop it closes. Each opens with an At a glance block saying when to reach for it and what you leave with. Pick by what is going wrong, not by what sounds relevant.

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Reach for it when	How-to	Owner	Closes
Somebody is about to open an editor and nobody has written down what the thing may do	Design an Agent on Paper	Solution architect	Spec
The NFRs are adjectives, and trade-offs get settled by seniority	Run an NFR Workshop	Solution architect	Requirements
Somebody has already picked the answer, and the decision must survive them leaving	Choose Build, Buy or Borrow	Solution architect	Decision
A score is being offered as proof	Prove the Bar	QA lead	Trust
The plan is ordered by priority, and day three needs something from day seven	Cut Sprints into Bolts	Engineering lead	Delivery
The queue is days long and the policy is two seniors on everything	Review by Risk Band	Engineering lead	Delivery
You cannot name the line of code that refuses	Hold the Security Boundary	Engineering lead, with the architect	— (the control set every loop assumes)
The bill left its estimate and traffic did not	Control the Token Bill	Engineering lead	Cost
The draft action list contains a string rather than a control	Run a Missing-Control Postmortem	QA lead	Incident

Doing

I want…	It is here
To write the agent loop by hand	Module 05 · AGL-01
Converse API syntax	Cheat sheet
Strands / LangGraph / AgentCore syntax	Quick reference
To build RAG properly	Module 10 · ragkit
To deploy an agent as a service	Module 11 · deploy how-to
Graded practice	L.A.B. Simulator — or one click in Codespaces
The ideal lifecycle for a project like this	Agentic PDLC · Lifecycle Reference — artefacts and gates mapped to AIDD, BMAD, AI-DLC
What is active in the repo right now	Repo Pulse
Graded practice with nothing installed	Simulator Arena
Practice with other people's answers	Discussion index

Deciding

I want…	It is here
To decide if this should be an agent	Autonomy Ladder · PDL-01
To choose a multi-agent topology	Handoff Multiplier · how-to
To decide build vs buy	Playbook
To run a design review	Playbook · Scorecard
To write acceptance criteria	How-to
A PRD template	Seven sample PRDs

When it breaks

I want…	It is here
A specific error message	Error Index
The AWS-specific errors	Troubleshooting
To debug from a symptom	Failure Signature Catalog
An incident procedure	Runbooks
Things that break silently	Silent Degradation Watchlist

Copy-paste

I want…	It is here
The two-line check for the repeating-tool-call bug	agent_history_invariant.py
A tool return contract the model cannot misread	honest_tool_result.py
A release gate in 40 lines that can say no	release_gate.py
An H× calculator for a design review	handoff_multiplier.py

Career

I want…	It is here
To prepare for an interview	Interview guides — five roles, both sides
To hire for this	Hiring guide
To teach this to a team	Training frameworks playbook

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