Architectures and Design Principles for Agentic AI Systems

Lesson 02 · The Agentic AI vocabulary problem01 / 26
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Agentic AI arrives with a wall of words.

Agents, harnesses, orchestrators, MCP, A2A, ReAct, supervisors, frameworks… The terminology grows faster than the ideas underneath it. This lesson takes a different route through it.

AgentAgentic AIWorkflowOrchestratorHarnessToolFunction CallingMCPA2AMemoryStateContextRAGPlannerRouterSupervisorReflectionReActHandoffMulti-AgentGuardrailsFrameworkLangGraphStrands AgentsAgents SDKObservabilityEvaluation

Do we need to memorise all of these before we can design Agentic AI systems?