Resources
Understand the decision behind the agentic design.
Guides for engineers, architects and technical leaders. Start with a problem, examine a worked example and decide what to investigate or change.
Start with the whole system
Designing agentic systems
Work through the connected decisions: whether the task needs an agent, its purpose, evidence, permissions, uncertainty and observable behaviour.
Examine one decision
When a workflow is enough
Compare a fixed sequence with an agent that chooses its next step from what it finds.
Who may call the tool
Examine where permissions are enforced and how a tool checks the authority and evidence behind an action.
What to do with uncertain evidence
Decide when to act, refuse or hand over with the missing evidence named.
Put the reasoning into practice
Use a design template to record your next decision, or develop the capability through a guided Agentic Systems programme.