Agentic AI · Operator
Agentic AI Foundations
How AI agents plan, call tools and recover from errors — and when not to use one.
Lessons
- 25m
1. What makes a system agentic
Agents vs. chatbots vs. workflows; autonomy as a dial.
- 40m
2. Tools and function calling
Describing tools so a model uses them correctly.
- 35m
3. Memory, state and context windows
Short-term scratchpads vs. long-term stores.
- 30m
4. Failure modes and human-in-the-loop
Loops, hallucinated tools, and approval gates.
Exercises
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Write a tool spec
Define a JSON schema for a `book_meeting` tool with name, attendees and time.
Spot the failure
An agent retries a failing API 40 times. List two safeguards.