Course Chapter 04

Architecture for Agentic Engineers

Design systems that agents can work within — clean interfaces, predictable state, and separation of concerns that scales.

Building software that AI can reason about and safely modify

Chapter framing

Most software wasn't designed with AI agents in mind. This chapter teaches you how to architect systems that agents can understand, navigate, and modify — without creating a mess.

You'll learn separation of concerns for agentic workflows, how to design tool and API surfaces that agents can actually use, and patterns for managing state in systems where both humans and agents operate.