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AI-304 AI & Data

Agentic AI: Single-Agent Design

Design agents that act, not just answer: the reason–act loop, tool permissioning, memory, bounded autonomy and refusal behaviour — built as a compact, readable agent (~80 lines) learners can fully explain, then hardened with guardrails and audit logging.

B4Professional
5modules
34skill atoms
1role journey
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 34 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Agent Anatomy7 skill atoms
reason-act loopplanningstopping criteriaReAct trace formatscratchpad statestep limitsdeterministic replay
2Tools & Permissions7 skill atoms
tool registryleast-privilegedry-run modetyped tool schemasread vs write tool splitscoped credentialstool-call logging
3Memory Design6 skill atoms
short vs long-termretrieval-backed memoryepisodic vs semantic storesummarization compactionmemory poisoning riskTTL & forgetting
4Bounded Autonomy7 skill atoms
budgetshuman gatesrefusal rulestoken & cost capswall-clock timeoutsapproval thresholds by action riskescalation handoff
5Hardening Lab7 skill atoms
injection resistanceaudit trailfailure drillsprompt injection via tool outputinstruction/data separationallow-listed domainschaos test of tool failures
Where it fits

AI-304 in a role journey.

This course appears in 1 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Agentic AI Engineer

Practitioner stage
AI-101AI-304AI-306

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B4.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

Run AI-304 for your team.

This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.

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