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Free agentic AI fundamentals course

Introduction to Agentic AI and Workflow Automation

Module 07

Failure Modes: Loops, Over-Action, Hallucinated Tools, and Stale Context

By the end of this module you can name the ways agentic workflows fail - loops, over-action, invented tools, stale context - and put a specific limit against each one.

Units

  1. Unit 07.00: Loops, and the two detectors that catch them
  2. Unit 07.01: An agent that does more than it was asked
  3. Unit 07.02: Tools the agent invented
  4. Unit 07.03: Context that was true last week
  5. Unit 07.04: Failures that produce no error at all

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