Module 01 Summary

What this module established

An agent is a system whose next step is decided during the run. That one property - not model calls, not tools, not a framework - is what forces everything else in this course: stopping rules, permissions, gates, and a way to see what it did.

Carry forward

• Three of five common workflows are scripts. A fixed sequence needs none of the machinery an agent does, and cannot loop.
• Autonomy is a dial. What grows with it is the window in which a wrong action goes unnoticed.
• A demo shows capability, not robustness. Ask what happens when a tool call fails, and whether that input was chosen.

Before moving on

Move on when you can apply the run-time-sequence test to a real workflow and defend the structure you chose, including choosing 'a script'.

Mark complete