Agentic: foundations, built-in tools and features, workflows, customization, and integrations.http://localhost:4321/http://localhost:4321/agentic/agent-architecture-overview/http://localhost:4321/agentic/agent-architecture-overview/The four-component reference architecture: model, tools, memory, instructions. How requests flow through each.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFoundationalconceptFundamentalsarchitecturefoundationscomponentsagent-loophttp://localhost:4321/agentic/agent-development-kit-overview/http://localhost:4321/agentic/agent-development-kit-overview/Google's Agent Development Kit. What's in the box — agent primitives, tools, orchestration, evaluation harness, and the workflow it expects.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFoundationalimplementationImplementationsimplementationadkframeworkhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/agent-memory/http://localhost:4321/agentic/agent-memory/Short-term working context vs long-term storage. Episodic, semantic, and procedural memory in agent systems.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFoundationalconceptFundamentalsmemorycontext-windowvector-storefoundationshttp://localhost:4321/agentic/action-and-tool-use/http://localhost:4321/agentic/action-and-tool-use/How agents act in the world. Function calls, code execution, API requests, and the safety boundary around each.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFoundationalconceptFundamentalstoolsfunction-callingcode-executionsafetyhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/chainbuddy-pipeline-generator/http://localhost:4321/agentic/chainbuddy-pipeline-generator/An agent that solves the 'blank page problem' for LLM-evaluation workflows. Requirement-gathering chat + multi-agent pipeline generation.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntermediatesystemCase Studiessystempipeline-generationmulti-agentevaluationhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/design-your-first-agent/http://localhost:4321/agentic/design-your-first-agent/An open-ended exercise: pick a real workflow you do daily, decompose it, and design the agent that would automate it.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFoundationalexerciseDesign Exercisesexercisebeginnerdesignworkflowdecompositionhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/designing-a-self-improving-web-agent/http://localhost:4321/agentic/designing-a-self-improving-web-agent/How to evolve a WebVoyager-style agent over time: experience replay, failure mining, prompt-update loops, eval harness.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAdvancedexerciseDesign Exercisesexerciseweb-agentself-improvementevaluationdesignhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/eureka-reward-design-agent/http://localhost:4321/agentic/eureka-reward-design-agent/Coding LLMs that autonomously design and refine RL reward functions. Zero-shot generation, evolutionary search, reward reflection.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAdvancedsystemCase Studiessystemreinforcement-learningreward-designcode-generationhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/designing-a-smart-parking-agent/http://localhost:4321/agentic/designing-a-smart-parking-agent/A constrained-environment design exercise — turn a sensor + ticketing system into a proactive, intent-aware parking agent.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFoundationalexerciseDesign Exercisesexercisesmart-parkingdesignhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/designing-an-ai-hospital-diagnosis-system/http://localhost:4321/agentic/designing-an-ai-hospital-diagnosis-system/A safety-critical multi-agent design: triage, diagnosis, second-opinion, and uncertainty handling for a hospital setting.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAdvancedexerciseDesign Exercisesexercisehealthcaremulti-agentsafetydesignhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/function-calling-and-tools/http://localhost:4321/agentic/function-calling-and-tools/Schema-typed tool calls as the agent's verb. Parallel calls, structured outputs, and the lifecycle of a tool invocation.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFoundationalpatternPatternspatternfunction-callingtoolsstructured-outputschemashttp://localhost:4321/agentic/guardrails-and-safety/http://localhost:4321/agentic/guardrails-and-safety/Pre-call validation, post-call filtering, content policies, action allowlists. The defense-in-depth pattern for agent safety.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntermediatepatternPatternspatternguardrailssafetyvalidationdefense-in-depthhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/eureka-reward-loop-with-adk/http://localhost:4321/agentic/eureka-reward-loop-with-adk/End-to-end implementation: reward generation, evaluation, selection, reflection, and human feedback — wired together as a closed loop.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAdvancedimplementationImplementationsimplementationadkreward-designevolutionary-searchhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/human-in-the-loop/http://localhost:4321/agentic/human-in-the-loop/When and how to ask for human confirmation, feedback, or override. Designing the handoff so it's neither annoying nor unsafe.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFoundationalpatternPatternspatternhuman-in-the-loopconfirmationoversightsafetyhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/key-challenges-in-agentic-systems/http://localhost:4321/agentic/key-challenges-in-agentic-systems/Hallucination, long-horizon drift, cost overruns, evaluation difficulty, prompt injection, and the open problems no framework solves for you.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntermediateconceptFundamentalschallengesreliabilityevaluationsafetyhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/hierarchical-planning/http://localhost:4321/agentic/hierarchical-planning/High-level planner + low-level executor. When to decompose, how deep to go, and how to keep sub-plans aligned with the goal.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntermediatepatternPatternspatternplanninghierarchydecompositionlong-horizonhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/macrs-conversational-recommender/http://localhost:4321/agentic/macrs-conversational-recommender/A multi-agent system for goal-directed conversational recommendations. Multi-agent act planning + user-feedback-aware reflection.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAdvancedsystemCase Studiessystemmulti-agentrecommenderconversational-aihttp://localhost:4321/agentic/loop-control-and-exit-conditions/http://localhost:4321/agentic/loop-control-and-exit-conditions/When to stop. Step budgets, success predicates, stagnation detection, escape-hatch handoffs — the under-loved half of every agent.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntermediateimplementationImplementationsimplementationadkloop-controlsafetyhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/mock-interview-agent-design/http://localhost:4321/agentic/mock-interview-agent-design/A 45-minute mock loop for an agent-system-design interview. The prompt, the rubric, and the common follow-up questions.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntermediateexerciseDesign Exercisesexercisemock-interviewrubricdesignhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/mulan-multi-object-diffusion/http://localhost:4321/agentic/mulan-multi-object-diffusion/An LLM-orchestrated approach to multi-object text-to-image generation. Planning, progressive generation, VLM-feedback control.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAdvancedsystemCase Studiessystemdiffusionmultimodalvision-language-modelhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/multi-agent-orchestration/http://localhost:4321/agentic/multi-agent-orchestration/Sequential, router, swarm, supervisor-worker. The four shapes of multi-agent coordination and what each costs.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntermediatepatternPatternspatternmulti-agentorchestrationsupervisorrouterhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/multimodal-web-agent-with-adk/http://localhost:4321/agentic/multimodal-web-agent-with-adk/Playwright state management, screenshot-and-DOM grounding tools, and a multimodal ReAct loop assembled with ADK primitives.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAdvancedimplementationImplementationsimplementationadkweb-agentmultimodalplaywrighthttp://localhost:4321/agentic/openclaw-personal-assistant/http://localhost:4321/agentic/openclaw-personal-assistant/A personal-assistant design: how to compose an agent that mixes calendar, mail, search, and reminders behind a single conversational surface.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntermediatesystemCase Studiessystempersonal-assistanttool-usemulti-modal-inputhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/reasoning-and-planning/http://localhost:4321/agentic/reasoning-and-planning/Chain-of-thought, tree-of-thought, plan-then-execute. Where the agent's 'thinking' happens before it acts.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntermediateconceptFundamentalsreasoningplanningchain-of-thoughtreacthttp://localhost:4321/agentic/perception-and-grounding/http://localhost:4321/agentic/perception-and-grounding/How agents take input — text, vision, audio, structured data — and ground it to actions in their environment.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFoundationalconceptFundamentalsperceptiongroundingmultimodalobservationshttp://localhost:4321/agentic/react-loop/http://localhost:4321/agentic/react-loop/Reason, then act, then observe — the foundational interleaved-thought-and-tool-use pattern that powers most modern agents.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFoundationalpatternPatternspatternreactlooptool-usehttp://localhost:4321/agentic/reflection-and-self-critique/http://localhost:4321/agentic/reflection-and-self-critique/Letting an agent review its own output before committing. Self-correction loops, judge-models, and the diminishing-returns curve.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntermediatepatternPatternspatternreflectionself-critiquejudge-modelevaluationhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/setup-and-grounding-an-agent/http://localhost:4321/agentic/setup-and-grounding-an-agent/Wiring an agent to its environment — env vars, tool registration, prompt scaffolding, and the smallest workable hello-world loop.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntermediateimplementationImplementationsimplementationadksetupgroundinghttp://localhost:4321/agentic/webvoyager-multimodal-web-agent/http://localhost:4321/agentic/webvoyager-multimodal-web-agent/A vision-and-text agent that navigates real websites. Multimodal ReAct loop, screenshot grounding, end-to-end task completion.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAdvancedsystemCase Studiessystemweb-agentmultimodalvision-language-modelhttp://localhost:4321/agentic/what-is-an-agent/http://localhost:4321/agentic/what-is-an-agent/What makes a system 'agentic' vs a plain LLM call. Autonomy, tools, memory, and the perception–reasoning–action loop.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFoundationalconceptFundamentalsfoundationsdefinitionagent-loop