Section 6: Memory and Knowledge for Agents
- Short-term and long-term memory and their effect on agent behavior
- Having the agent use real organizational data with RAG (retrieval augmented generation)
- Managing context and selecting relevant data for the agent
- Reducing hallucination and having the agent cite sources
Section 7: Multi-Agent Systems and Orchestration
- Why some work needs multiple agents rather than a single one
- Collaboration patterns: supervisor and worker, role division and hand-off
- Coordinating agents, aggregating results, and cautions on complexity and cost
- Workshop: design a team of 2-3 agents that divide roles to run one process together
Section 8: Connecting AI Agents to Real Systems
- Connecting agents to data and systems via MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- Placing agents in automated processes with n8n and receiving events via webhook
- Connecting channels such as Gmail, LINE and Slack so the agent receives tasks and returns results
- Approaches for securely connecting databases and internal systems (demo)
Section 9: Reliability, Guardrails and Human-in-the-loop
- Designing guardrails to limit what the agent can do
- Where human approval is required (human-in-the-loop) for high-risk work
- Handling errors, loops and capping step count and cost, and testing agent quality before production
- Workshop: add guardrails and human approval points to the agent from the earlier workshop
Section 10: Security, Cost, PDPA and AI Governance for Agents
- Agent-specific risks: over-broad tool access and prompt injection via external data
- Managing permissions and credentials on least privilege
- Data the agent must not access and protecting personal data under PDPA
- Controlling usage cost and maintaining an audit trail and AI usage policy for agents
Section 11: Capstone Project and Real-world Adoption
- Task: build an end-to-end AI agent for one of the learner's real tasks, setting goal, role, tools and memory with guardrails and human approval points
- Connect the agent to a real system or channel and test end to end
- Present the work and get feedback, plus a first-30-days adoption plan and extending to an organizational agent system