Agentic Architecture

Kind: pattern

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: architecture:agentic-architecture

Severity: contextual

Scope: model-backed system, reasoning, decision flow

Canonical: Ontology

A design pattern in which the model chooses actions from a scoped set of tools, within a step limit and under review.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Model Drift Monitoring and before Observability.

Requires

• Model Inference
• Tool Interface

Reinforces

• Explainability
• Model Safety

Enables

• Bounded Tool-Using Agents
• Governed Autonomy

Conflicts with

• Ungrounded Content

In tension with

• Determinism

Tensions

• Agentic Architecture / Determinism

Violated by

• Unbounded Autonomy

Refactored by

• Guardrails
• Rate Limiting
• Code Review

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Model Architecture

Linked from

• The author is probabilistic
• Systems built around a model
• Anti-patterns
• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Model Architecture
• Model Architecture
• Security Privacy Compliance
• Severity levels
• The resolutions