AI Agent Engineering: Tools, State and Human Control
A supervised tool-using agent with tests traces and operating guidance. Tool arguments are validated; approvals govern high-impact actions; a fixed evaluation set covers failure and termination.
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What you will be able to do.
Build understanding, put it into practice and finish with work you can explain.
- Tool arguments are validated; approvals govern high-impact actions; a fixed evaluation set covers failure and termination.
Is this for you?
Intermediate learners who can demonstrate the entry competencies listed below. Preparation suggestions are optional.
Before you begin
Write a small function, branch on input and explain an error path Build a validated endpoint and test an invalid request Explain method status headers and JSON; send one safe request Create a branch, commit a change and recover an edit
How you will show your progress
Tool arguments are validated; approvals govern high-impact actions; a fixed evaluation set covers failure and termination.
From first principles to applied work.
Explain → Demonstration → Guided practice → Review
Planned outline. Lessons, trainer and schedule are confirmed before this course opens.
01240 live minutesAgent-versus-workflow problem framing
45 min explanation · 45 min demonstration · 105 min practice · 45 min review
Write an agent-versus-workflow decision for a support operation
02360 live minutesModel interfaces and typed tool contracts
70 min explanation · 70 min demonstration · 160 min practice · 60 min review
Specify typed model inputs outputs and tool contracts
03360 live minutesState transitions and bounded execution
70 min explanation · 70 min demonstration · 160 min practice · 60 min review
Implement bounded state transitions with an explicit stop condition
04360 live minutesMemory and retrieval boundaries
70 min explanation · 70 min demonstration · 160 min practice · 60 min review
Separate transient memory from permission-filtered retrieval
05480 live minutesHuman approvals and permission design
95 min explanation · 95 min demonstration · 215 min practice · 75 min review
Require approval before a simulated external write
06360 live minutesMCP integration in an isolated lab
70 min explanation · 70 min demonstration · 160 min practice · 60 min review
Integrate one local read-only MCP tool
07360 live minutesRetries checkpoints and recovery
70 min explanation · 70 min demonstration · 160 min practice · 60 min review
Resume from a checkpoint without duplicating an approved action
08360 live minutesEvaluation traces and usage budgets
70 min explanation · 70 min demonstration · 160 min practice · 60 min review
Evaluate quality traces and usage on a fixed case set
09480 live minutesBuild a supervised agent capstone
95 min explanation · 95 min demonstration · 215 min practice · 75 min review
Build a new supervised service-assistant capstone
10240 live minutesAssess behaviour and explain operating limits
45 min explanation · 45 min demonstration · 105 min practice · 45 min review
Defend failures permissions and operating limits in an assessed demo
How you will practise and be assessed.
The planned assessment checks your result, your judgement and your ability to apply what you learned independently.
- 01
Build the promised result
Demonstrate the promised artifact
WHAT YOUR WORK SHOULD SHOWTool arguments are validated; approvals govern high-impact actions; a fixed evaluation set covers failure and termination.
- 02
Test a limit or failure
Defend failures permissions and operating limits in an assessed demo
WHAT YOUR WORK SHOULD SHOWThe documented failure/uncertainty is visible, and no prohibited action or unsupported success claim occurs.
- 03
Apply it independently
Independently explain and change one assumption in a supervised tool-using agent with tests traces and operating guidance.
WHAT YOUR WORK SHOULD SHOWThe learner predicts and verifies the change; AI output is not accepted without understanding.
Where this course stands.
Lab assets and supported tool versions are confirmed before teaching
Explore the source reference- Course ID
- C001
- Content
- Course outline in review
- Trainer
- Instructor to be confirmed
- Enrolment
- Not open · requests welcome
- Publication
- Planned
- Catalogue date
- 2026-10-15
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