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Learn to inspect what an agentic system actually does: how it continues work, uses software, carries state, receives authority, and recovers when action goes wrong.

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Thematic path · 2 hours 45 minutes

Agents and AI-native Software

Learn to inspect what an agentic system actually does: how it continues work, uses software, carries state, receives authority, and recovers when action goes wrong.

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Build connected understanding by moving through an explicit order.

You will leave with: classify a model, chatbot, workflow, or agent from observable behavior rather than labels trace goals, steps, tools, context, state, permissions, review, and recovery through a system place controls according to consequence, reversibility, and uncertainty write a practical control plan before delegating consequential action
Time: 165 min
Before you begin: General AI Literacy unit 09 is useful preparation, but the path begins with a complete system-classification foundation.
Do this now: Read the intended outcomes, then open the first unfinished unit.

Prepared next stepModel, chatbot, workflow, or agent?

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Six connected units

01Model, chatbot, workflow, or agent?
02Goals, plans, and steps
03Tools and interfaces
04Memory, state, and context
05Permissions and control
06Failure, review, and recovery

By the end of this path, you should be able to

classify a model, chatbot, workflow, or agent from observable behavior rather than labels
trace goals, steps, tools, context, state, permissions, review, and recovery through a system
place controls according to consequence, reversibility, and uncertainty
write a practical control plan before delegating consequential action

25 min

Model, chatbot, workflow, or agent?

Classify systems without relying on marketing labels

Open unit

25 min

Goals, plans, and steps

Understand continuation across work

Open unit

25 min

Tools and interfaces

Explain how agents act through software

Open unit

30 min

Memory, state, and context

Distinguish temporary context from durable state

Open unit

30 min

Permissions and control

Evaluate what an agent may access and change

Open unit

30 min

Failure, review, and recovery

Design approval and recovery for consequential action

Open unit

What you will make

My agent control plan

Goal and stopping boundary
Tools, data, and state
Approval and observation
Recovery and owner

Path completion artifact

My agent control plan

Choose a real or imagined agentic use. Define its goal and boundaries, the access it needs, where a person reviews it, and how the system stops or recovers. Save the plan in My Map.

Goal and stopping boundaryTools, data, and stateApproval and observationRecovery and ownerComplete all six units before saving the path artifact.

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