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AI 104 Practice

Five short activities that build the judgment behind a good Agentic AI Workflow Canvas

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Self-check (not scored, not stored). Every activity gives immediate feedback and explains why. If you miss, pick again; an activity is done when every item is right.

Prompt, Workflow or Agent?

Classify each scenario: a single Prompt, a fixed Workflow, an Agentic Workflow (a predefined frame with bounded agent decisions inside), or an Agent that chooses its own next steps toward a goal.

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Item 1

You ask an AI once to rewrite one paragraph of your email so that it sounds more polite.

Item 2

Every Monday the same sequence runs: pull last week's ticket export, summarize it with AI, format it in the standard template and email it to the team. The order never changes.

Item 3

An incoming customer request is classified by AI as billing, technical or general. Each category then follows a predefined path where AI drafts a reply, and unclear cases go to a person.

Item 4

Given the goal "find out why sign-ups dropped", a system decides for itself which data to look at, what to check next and when it has enough, within read-only access. A person reviews the final findings.

Item 5

You paste one paragraph and ask for an English translation.

Item 6

AI summarizes a document, a second AI call turns the summary into three quiz questions and a third formats them as a table. The same three calls run every time.

Item 7

A course preparation flow has fixed stages (collect, draft, review). At the drafting stage the AI chooses, from a short list of allowed actions, whether to search the approved library again or ask the lecturer for a missing detail.

Item 8

An assistant is given the goal "prepare the department's ESG briefing". It chooses its own steps and sources, changes its plan when a source is missing and stops when it judges the goal met, inside limits set by a human owner.

Task Decomposition

A lecturer wants to prepare one course session. For each step, decide who or what should carry it out: a Human, an AI, or a Tool step (an external system such as search or a calendar). The cues in brackets show order and dependencies.

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Item 1

Step 1 (first; nothing comes before it): decide the goal of the session and who the learners are.

Item 2

Step 2 (needs step 1): search the approved course library for existing materials on the topic.

Item 3

Step 3 (needs step 2): draft an outline from the goal and the materials found.

Item 4

Step 4 (needs step 3; can run at the same time as step 5): draft five practice questions for the outline.

Item 5

Step 5 (needs step 3; runs alongside step 4): check room booking and equipment in the calendar system.

Item 6

Step 6 (needs steps 3 and 4): review the outline and the questions for accuracy and fit for the learners.

Item 7

Step 7 (needs step 6): turn the reviewed outline into slides using the standard template.

Item 8

Step 8 (needs step 7): approve the final slides for distribution, taking responsibility for the content.

Item 9

Step 9 (needs steps 5 and 8): send the schedule and slides to the participants by email.

Item 10

Step 10 (last): write a short note of what was decided and any open issues, for the lecturer to read.

Choose the Workflow Pattern

Choose the pattern that fits each situation: Sequential (order matters), Parallel (independent tasks combined later), Routing (different conditions, different paths) or Loop (check and revise until good enough).

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Item 1

Collect the source files, analyze them, draft the report and have it reviewed. Each step needs the output of the one before.

Item 2

Financial, policy and market analyses of the same company do not depend on each other. They are combined into one report at the end.

Item 3

Incoming emails are classified as complaint, order question or spam, and each type is handled by a different procedure.

Item 4

Draft a summary, check it against a checklist, revise it if it fails and check again, until it passes or three attempts have been used.

Item 5

Translate one document into three languages at the same time, then bundle the three files.

Item 6

A document is first identified as an invoice, a contract or a resume, and then handled by a different extraction procedure for each.

Item 7

Extract data from a table, clean it, calculate totals and only then produce the chart.

Item 8

Generate a quiz, test it for questions with more than one correct answer, fix the problems and test again until none remain.

Item 9

The approval path depends on risk level: low risk is approved automatically, medium risk goes to a supervisor and high risk goes to a committee.

Item 10

The certificates of five different suppliers are each checked independently, and the results are compiled into one table.

Fixed or Agentic?

For each workflow step, decide what kind of decision is involved: Fixed (always the same), Conditional (a rule picks the branch), Agent Decision (an agent chooses among bounded options) or Human Decision (a person must decide).

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Item 1

Always convert the uploaded file to PDF before processing it.

Item 2

If the file is longer than 50 pages, split it into sections; otherwise process it as one piece.

Item 3

Choose which of three approved sources to search next, based on what the previous search returned.

Item 4

Decide whether to grant an exception to the refund policy for a valuable customer.

Item 5

Always save the final report in the team folder with the date in the file name.

Item 6

If the request is written in English, use the English template; if it is written in Chinese, use the Chinese template.

Item 7

Decide whether the evidence found so far is enough or another source should be searched, choosing from a short list of allowed options.

Item 8

Decide whether the report should be published to external stakeholders.

Item 9

If the invoice total is above NT$50,000, send it to the finance approver; otherwise send it to the clerk.

Item 10

Decide which of the allowed tools (search, calculator, calendar) best answers the next sub-question.

Where Should a Human Step In?

Classify each part of a workflow as AI execution, automatic verification, human review, human approval, or a stop / fallback.

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Item 1

Draft a reply to a routine customer question from the approved FAQ.

Item 2

Check that the draft contains all required sections and that every cited document ID exists in the library.

Item 3

A person reads a summary of a policy change to judge whether the interpretation and tone are fair.

Item 4

Before a message goes to 500 external recipients, the sender must explicitly confirm it.

Item 5

The required input file is missing and the request cannot be understood, so the workflow stops and asks the requester for the file.

Item 6

Extract the totals from an invoice into a table.

Item 7

Compare the extracted total with the sum of the line items and flag any mismatch.

Item 8

The order-system lookup is still unavailable after two retries, so the workflow stops and hands the case to a person together with what was done so far.

Item 9

A payment above the limit is ready. A manager must approve it before it is executed.

Item 10

Model confidence is low on the reading of a legal clause, so a specialist reads the AI's suggestion together with the source clause.

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