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Quiz · 6 min · Lesson 4 of 7

Knowledge check: agents

Three questions on when to use an agent and how to keep it under control.

The questions below test design judgement: choosing between an agent and a simpler workflow, and placing controls where they matter.

Real projects rarely have a perfect answer, but there is usually a clearly safer one. Look for it.

Questions

Answer every question, then check your answers.

  1. Question 1 of 3Every Monday, the same five figures are copied from two systems into a report template. What fits best?
  2. Question 2 of 3An agent drafts replies to supplier emails. Where should the human checkpoint be?
  3. Question 3 of 3An agent keeps retrying the same failing API call. Which control would have stopped it?

Answered: 0 of 3

Key takeaways

  1. Use the simplest automation that does the job.
  2. Put approval right before irreversible actions.
  3. Hard limits and a hand-over stop runaway loops.

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