About
A field guide to how agents get built
The Agent Atlas is a close reading of the research behind modern AI agents, turned into one browsable publication. It is built and maintained by BlackArc Industrial, which builds production AI agents for manufacturing and operations.
- Papers
- 119
- Topics
- 13
- Reading
- 36h
Why The big idea
Most people read the abstract. Builders need the mechanism.
Every entry goes past the summary to the part that matters when you sit down to build: what is genuinely new, how it works down to the math, pseudocode of the core idea, and where it breaks. Then it maps that onto the shape of the whole field so you can see how the pieces connect.
Method
How it was made
Read the paper in full
Each source is read end to end, not skimmed. 92 of the 119 entries link straight back to their paper on arXiv.
Write for a builder
Plain language, the math demystified, and a path from idea to a version you could build yourself.
Map it into the atlas
Every breakdown lands in one of 13 topics, so the collection reads as a single publication instead of a pile of PDFs.
Go further
Two doors from here.
BlackArc builds the agent systems these papers describe. Josh writes about the ideas and the building. Both are one click away.