Regularly priced at $249, now free for AEI members.
Master the core runtime systems that make AI agents safe, predictable, and production ready. This 3-hour course shows you exactly how to control execution, enforce boundaries, validate tools, prevent failures, and build audit-ready agent behavior. Designed for agentic practitioners who are building real enterprise-grade agentic systems.
Understand why agentic systems fail in production and why the runtime, not the model, is the true control point for safety and predictability. Learn the core responsibilities of the ARE and how it fits into the broader Agentic Engineering discipline.
Module 2 explains the complete reference architecture and design principles that make the Agent Runtime Environment (ARE) safe, deterministic, and production-grade. You will learn how the ARE enforces lifecycle ordering, containment boundaries, contract-wrapped tool execution, invariants, drift detection, mediation controls, trace correctness, and system replayability. This module establishes the structural backbone of governed autonomy.
Module 3 builds practitioner-level fluency with the critical runtime tools and code templates required to operate production-grade autonomous systems. You will learn the tooling that enforces boundaries, lifecycle determinism, contract-wrapped tool execution, invariant detection, and traceability. You will also work with minimal code templates that demonstrate how ARE enforces governance, safety, and deterministic execution in real deployments. This module is highly operational and directly tied to real-world incidents in the field.
Module 4 distills real-world failures from diverse industries to reveal the universal root causes of agentic system breakdowns: weak or missing runtime controls. You will study recurring anti-patterns such as unbounded execution, schema drift, timeout cascades, budget drift, phase drift, and missing evidence. The module concludes with AEI’s Runtime Readiness and Maturity Model, clarifying the cross-role responsibilities required to certify a system as production-ready.