Agentic Primitives Framework

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Actors

Who participates?

Users

Human participants who initiate tasks, provide context, approve decisions, and consume outputs.

Agents

AI entities that perceive, reason, and act to accomplish goals. Vary from simple assistants to fully autonomous systems.

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Tools

What can agents access?

Knowledge Tools

Read-only interfaces for retrieving information from knowledge bases, databases, APIs, and search systems.

Vector Search Database Query Web Search File Reader

Action Tools

Interfaces that modify external state, trigger processes, or cause effects in connected systems.

API Mutation Code Execution Email Sender Record Writer

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Instructions

What guides behavior?

Agent Instructions

Core personality, expertise domain, tone, and behavioral guidelines for individual agents.

Workflow Instructions

Step-by-step procedures defining sequences, decision points, and success criteria for tasks.

System Instructions

Organization-wide policies covering both constraints (guardrails) and intent (system goals).

Constraints Intent

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Coordination

How is work coordinated?

Workflow Orchestration CENTRALIZED

Deterministic sequences with predefined steps, conditions, and branches. A central controller directs every step.

Agentic Orchestration CENTRALIZED

LLM-driven coordination where a supervisor agent dynamically plans, delegates, and adapts based on results.

Choreography DECENTRALIZED

Event-driven coordination where autonomous agents react independently without a central controller.

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Connections

How do components link?

Point-to-Point

Direct, explicit connections between two specific components. Hardwired and predictable.

Discovery

Dynamic lookup of capabilities from shared registries and catalogs. Flexible and loosely coupled.

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Interactions

How does communication flow?

Messages

Discrete units of communication between actors in three fundamental types.

Delegation (Command) Retrieval (Query) Notification (Event)

Conversations

Sustained, contextual exchanges over multiple turns maintaining history and state.

Framework at a Glance