This module diagnoses the core failure mode of autonomous systems: knowledge drift. We move beyond bugs to examine how stale facts, unverified sources, and policy misalignment silently corrupt agent reasoning. You'll learn to identify the four operational challenges—Drift, Opacity, Fragmentation, and Latency—and their direct business impact.

We then establish the Agentic Knowledge Engineering (AKE) framework as the solution. You'll understand the fundamental mindset shift: treating knowledge not as an archive but as a control surface and runtime service. We introduce the Knowledge Chain of Custody as the non-negotiable lifecycle for verifiable truth, setting the foundation for all subsequent engineering work.