Agentic AI

Agentic AI means using AI systems that can work through a goal across several steps, often with tools, memory, retrieval, or workflow permissions around them.

The important shift is not the word "agent". The important shift is that AI starts to sit inside a process:

• it gathers context
• it plans the next step
• it uses approved tools
• it reports what it did
• it asks for approval where judgement or risk is involved

What Readers Should Learn

• A chatbot answers a request.
• An agent pursues a bounded goal.
• A useful work agent needs constraints, logs, permissions, and review.
• Human accountability does not disappear just because AI completed several steps.

Starter Exercise

Choose one small repeatable task and define:

• the goal
• the inputs
• the allowed tools
• the forbidden actions
• the approval points
• the final output

That definition is the beginning of an agentic workflow.