Agentic Workflow Systems

Days 4–5

The end of Week 2 brings the pieces together into a full agentic workflow system — and the operational concerns that make such a system safe to run.

From an agent to a system

• Composing loops, skills, and tools into a workflow that does real work.
• Connecting the workflow to data so it operates on real inputs.

Operating safely

• Human in the loop: where to require approval and how to design the hand-off.
• Monitoring and observability: seeing what the system is doing, in real time and after the fact.
• Guardrails: constraining what the system can do, and catching it when it strays.
• Costs: understanding and controlling what a workflow spends.
• Autonomy: choosing where to run autonomously vs. semi-autonomously.
• Memory: what the system should remember, and for how long.

Validate, monitor, launch

• Validating that the workflow does what it should before trusting it.
• Launching it for yourself and for others, responsibly.

Outcomes

By the end of Week 2 you should be able to build an agentic workflow, connect it to data, and validate, monitor, and launch it — for yourself and for others — with appropriate human oversight and guardrails.