AI fundamental

Agentic workflows

Perception, reasoning, planning, capabilities, workflow state, validation, permissions, and control points.

Explanatory foundation

Guiding question

Does orchestration earn its additional complexity through observable control?

Use the answer to interpret evidence and limits rather than to substitute technical vocabulary for observation.

Related units

Where this fundamental is taught

Open the complete Friday guide for the conceptual input, demonstration, experiment, caveat, and transfer activity.

Unit 08

Designing Workflows: From Single Chat to Reliable AI Systems

Participants learn to move beyond a sequence of chat turns and design a controllable agentic system with explicit state, capabilities, routing, validation, permissions, stop conditions, and human approval. They learn when orchestration improves reliability and when it only adds complexity.

Agentic workflowsSystem literacy