01Strategy & Lifecycle
Agent Strategy & Use Case Identification
Identify, score and prioritize agent opportunities using impact, feasibility, risk and roadmap criteria.
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Strategy & Lifecycle
Choose the right opportunities and establish the lifecycle used to move them from idea to production.
02Strategy & Lifecycle
Agentic Development Lifecycle
A visual closed-loop framework for planning, building, testing, deploying, operating and improving AI agents.
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Architecture & Development
Design the core agent, reasoning behavior, prompts and runtime architecture.
03Architecture & Development
Agent Architecture Design
Design the reasoning, orchestration, memory, tool, observability and governance layers of production agents.
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Agent Development & Prompt Engineering
Create durable system prompts, tool-use rules, error recovery instructions and provider-aware agent behavior.
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Agent Planning & Reasoning
Compare ReAct, Reflexion, Tree of Thoughts, Plan-and-Execute, ReWOO and other reasoning patterns.
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Knowledge, Memory & Tools
Connect the agent to context, memory, tools, systems and other specialist agents.
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Knowledge & Context Engineering
Engineer context budgets, retrieval, RAG, GraphRAG, compression, isolation and knowledge layers.
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Agent Memory Design
Structure working, episodic, semantic and procedural memory with suitable storage and lifecycle controls.
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Tool & Function Integration
Connect agents to APIs and systems using function calling, MCP, secure schemas and scalable integration patterns.
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Multi-Agent Systems
Choose orchestration patterns, coordinate specialist agents and manage multi-agent cost and complexity.
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Governance, Risk & Safety
Control autonomy, protect systems, meet policy obligations and maintain accountable oversight.
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Human in the Loop
Design approval gates, escalation tiers, async review workflows and selective autonomy for high-risk actions.
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Agent Governance
Define accountability, policies, evidence, controls and governance mechanisms across the agent lifecycle.
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Agent Security
Protect against prompt injection, MCP risk, tool poisoning, memory attacks and privilege escalation.
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Agent Compliance & Risk
Map NIST AI RMF to agents, quantify risk, prepare for regulation and govern high-impact execution.
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Evaluation & Reliability
Prove that agents work correctly and continue working when tools, models or environments fail.
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Agent Testing & Evaluation
Evaluate task completion, trajectories, components, LLM-as-judge results, regressions, cost and latency.
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Agent Reliability Engineering
Build retries, circuit breakers, fallbacks, dead-letter queues, idempotency and chaos experiments.
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Deployment & Operations
Release, observe and operate agents continuously using production-grade controls.
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Agent Deployment
Move agents safely into production with packaging, release controls, staged rollout and rollback planning.
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Agent Observability
Trace model calls, tools, memory and multi-agent handoffs using OpenTelemetry-compatible observability.
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Agent Operations
Run day-two operations with SLOs, incident response, on-call tiers, runbooks, capacity and cost controls.
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Optimization & Economics
Improve agent capability while balancing cost, ROI, learning and operational efficiency.
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Agent Learning & Adaptation
Improve agents through memory, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, consolidation and skill evolution.
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Agent Economics
Manage token economics, model routing, cost per verified outcome, ROI, TCO and AI FinOps.
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