A plain-English guide · By Ashish Punj · Updated 23 October 2026
What is agentic engineering?
It means designing AI work that can use tools to take approved actions, while a person controls the goal, permissions, checks and responsibility.
A thinking partner can help you reason about a problem. An agent can also use a connected tool. That extra capability needs clear limits.
Four terms you will hear.
Prompt engineering: give AI a clear instruction. I start with Task, Context and Expectations.
Context engineering: provide the facts, examples and history the work needs.
AI agent: a system that chooses steps and uses approved tools towards a goal.
Agentic engineering: design the complete process, including permissions, checks, stopping rules and recovery.
An enquiry becomes a follow-up.
In a fictional practice workflow, a website form saves an enquiry in a customer tracker. An assistant retrieves it and drafts a reply. A person checks the facts and approves any external message.
A conversation saying “done” is not proof that the record was saved or the message delivered. Check the saved record and the relevant delivery evidence. If the result is uncertain, reconcile it before retrying.
Give explicit permission for each tool and action. Keep private customer information out of demonstrations. Never give an agent unrestricted access simply because a demo worked.
Judge the workflow by evidence, not excitement.
- Does it solve a clear business problem?
- Are its information and permissions appropriate?
- Can you inspect the saved result?
- What happens after a duplicate request, failed tool or lost response?
- Can a person stop it and correct a mistake?
Good instructions reduce confusion. They do not make AI infallible or remove human responsibility.
How this enters the course.
These checks are learned alongside the nine builds. First define your problem and set up your thinking partner. Then build, connect and test a website, private CRM and WhatsApp assistant.
The course is 9 classes, 18 classroom hours, ₹12,800 including GST, with maximum 8 students. Taught by Ashish in Sector 33D, Chandigarh, for current business owners aged 24 to 48. Your own AI plan and chosen running costs are separate.
Bring one business problem.
You leave the free class with a first answer to your business problem.