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Agent Workflow Architecture: Instructions, Tools, and Orchestration Design

Learn to architect how a multi-step AI agent workflow actually runs: decomposing a goal into steps, scoping instructions and tools per step and role, modeling workflow states and plans, choosing and justifying an orchestration pattern, designing retries and partial-completion recovery, architecting long-running workflows, and writing an engineering handoff specification an implementation team could build from.

20 hours (approximately)3 Levels · 30 Lessons
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By the end of this Course, you can decompose a multi-step agent workflow into steps, roles, and instruction scopes; specify callable-tool boundaries and workflow states; choose and justify an orchestration pattern; design retry, partial-completion, and long-running behavior; and assemble a complete engineering handoff specification an implementation team could build from.

01Decompose a user goal into ordered, named steps with explicit boundaries, data contracts, and role assignments
02Scope instructions per step and per role, and prevent instruction bleed across step boundaries
03Define a step's callable-tool boundary and permission scope, including how tool access changes across a workflow
04Apply state-machine notation to a multi-step agent plan and design meaningful, complete workflow states
05Choose and justify sequential, parallel, conditional, and checkpoint orchestration patterns per workflow segment
06Design step-level retry behavior, workflow-scale partial completion, and failure recovery
07Architect long-running workflows with progress visibility, resumability, and the interoperability concept at a system boundary
08Assemble and validate a complete engineering handoff specification
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Curriculum

3 Levels · 30 Lessons

Assessment

Each Lesson may include a Quiz

Each Level may include an Exam

Completion requirements

Complete the available Lessons

Pass all configured Quizzes and Exams

Locked activities open only after their prerequisites are met

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Course Skills7 Course Skills
Callable-Tool Scoping
Engineering Handoff Specification
Orchestration Pattern Selection
Retry and Partial-Completion Design
Role and Step-Scoped Instruction Design
Workflow Decomposition Design
Workflow State and Plan Modeling
Related Competency Domains
Structure & Flow
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Career Path relationship

Completed Course progress automatically counts toward the Career Path when this Course belongs to a Mission.

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What You'll Gain
  • Builds one practiced workflow-architecture judgment across 30 bilingual Lessons
  • Keeps every architectural decision tied to a real step boundary, tool scope, or failure mode, never a decorative diagram
  • Separates what a workflow specification actually decides from what a clean diagram would prefer to imply, at every step
  • Uses scenario-based assessments to rehearse the real judgment calls of a working Agentic Experience Designer's workflow-architecture practice
Who Is This Course For?
  • UX/Product Designers moving from single-turn agentic UX into multi-step, multi-tool agent workflow architecture
  • Designers preparing a workflow specification an engineering team will actually implement
  • Product teams deciding how a workflow's steps should be sequenced, parallelized, or checkpointed
  • Anyone responsible for what a multi-step agent does across tools, time, and failure conditions
Course Features
  • 3 progressive Levels and 30 substantive bilingual Lessons
  • 30 Lesson Quizzes with 10 scenario-based questions each
  • 3 Level Exams with 15 transfer questions each
  • One structurally validated Practice Task specifying a complete multi-step agent workflow with orchestration, retry, and handoff design
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Course Completion Certificate

Awarded after the Course's configured completion requirements are met.