Frameworks
Original frameworks and models for designing, building, and governing enterprise AI agents
Agentic Academy’s original frameworks provide a shared vocabulary for designing, building, and governing AI agents in enterprise environments. Each framework is grounded in production experience and designed to be immediately applicable.
These frameworks are free to use, cite, and build upon. If they help clarify your thinking or improve your team’s conversations, we’ve done our job.
Agentic Primitives
The building blocks of AI agent systems
A taxonomy of 17 primitives across four domains—Mind, Hands, Voice, and Wiring—that provides a shared vocabulary for designing, building, and governing AI agents regardless of framework or platform.
Mind
Actors & InstructionsHands
Tools & RetrievalVoice
Interactions & PatternsWiring
Connections & OrchestrationFour Dimensions of Agent Autonomy
A multi-dimensional model for understanding and governing agent independence
Autonomy isn't a single dial you turn. This framework decomposes agent autonomy into four independent dimensions—Tool, Task, Plan, and Collaboration—enabling precise governance conversations and incremental trust-building.
Tool Autonomy
What capabilities an agent can useTask Autonomy
What work an agent can identifyPlan Autonomy
How an agent sequences actionsCollaboration
How agents coordinate with peersApplied Autonomy Framework
Bridging design intent and operational reality
The gap between what you design and what you can operate is where most enterprise AI initiatives stumble. This framework makes the gap between aspiration and operational reality explicit, measurable, and actionable—with maturity gates, trust scores, and risk assessments.
Design Profile
Intended autonomy levelsOperating Profile
Actual deployed autonomyMaturity Gates
Conditions for expanding autonomyTrust Scores
Earned confidence over timeTasks, Skills & Tools
The holy trinity of AI agent capability architecture
A practical framework for understanding the three essential components that make AI agents work in enterprise environments: the work they do (Tasks), the capabilities they have (Skills), and the systems they interact with (Tools).
Tasks
The work agents performSkills
Capabilities agents possessTools
Systems agents interact withUsing these frameworks
These frameworks are published under Agentic Academy and are free to reference in your presentations, internal documentation, architecture reviews, and published work. When citing, please attribute to the original authors and link back to the source article.