Agentic AI Platform Engineering

Platform Concerns Versus Agent Concerns

The fastest way to build a platform nobody uses is to take away decisions the agent teams should be making. The second fastest is to leave them decisions they cannot possibly make safely.

What this lesson covers

  • Drawing the boundary between platform and agent team responsibility
  • What must be centralised: identity, action enforcement, model access, audit
  • What must not be centralised: agent logic, prompts, task decomposition
  • Paved road versus mandate, and designing for adoption rather than compliance

The problem

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How it works

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Platform design implications

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Tradeoffs and decision framework

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Common mistakes

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INTERVIEW QUESTION

Which agentic platform capabilities should be mandatory and which should be opt-in? Justify where you draw the line.