Fundamentals of Agentic Systems

Introduction to agentic systems: AI-enabled systems that plan, use tools, coordinate with people and other agents, and operate within economic and organizational settings. Combines game-theoretic foundations of multi-agent systems with practical methods for building agentic workflows, improving and aligning agent behavior, and evaluating performance. Applications include enterprise workflows, research tasks, commerce, and human-agent collaboration. Students complete a substantial project designing, building, and analyzing an agentic workflow. Prerequisite: some prior familiarity with computer programming.