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Domain 1

Agents and Workflows

3 build exercises to practice the concepts in this domain.

1.1Intermediate40 minutes

1.1 — Classify three jobs and draw the control flow

What you will learn

  • How to tell a known path from a discovered path.
  • Where a supervisor belongs, and where it is extra.
  • Which edges are sequential and which can run together.
  • Where a side effect needs a code gate even if the rest is an agent.
Open topic 1.1
1.2Advanced50 minutes

1.2 — Build a refund loop with a real gate

What you will learn

  • How a custom loop treats stop_reason.
  • How a tool error returns to the model.
  • How a PreToolUse gate differs from a prompt line.
  • How a human pause is different from both.
Open topic 1.2
1.3Intermediate45 minutes

1.3 — Isolate a search and pick the orchestration

What you will learn

  • How a subagent return contract protects the parent window.
  • How compaction differs from dumping memory back in.
  • How to reject a framework when the graph has one node.
  • How LangGraph-style and PydanticAI-style pains differ.
Open topic 1.3