08 — Agentic & Tool-Use Architecture

Status: Outline. This module now has its full scaffold in place; fill the body pages during the scheduled prep week.

What is in this module

Notes

• Tool Schema Design Doctrine
• Agentic Loop Patterns
• State and Memory
• MCP Integration
• Human in the Loop and Decision Rights

Drills

• Should This Be an Agent
• Design a Safe Tool Schema
• Multi Agent Coordination Defense

Case Study

• BFSI Agentic Workflow Walkthrough

System Designs

• BFSI RM Copilot
• BFSI Compliance Review Agentic with HITL

Strong-Hire bar

• You can explain the module in customer language, not only implementation language.
• You can defend trade-offs, failure modes, evals, and governance choices under skeptical questioning.
• You can connect the module back to the running BFSI customer and the Apic Applied AI Architect role.