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Prompt & Policy Baseline

T1 - Agent Engineering Foundations

Create grounding instructions for agent behavior - Align prompt patterns with policy obligations - Set evaluation hooks for prompt regressions

Design dependable coding agents with clear guardrails and success metrics.

Key outcomes

  • Create grounding instructions for agent behavior
  • Align prompt patterns with policy obligations
  • Set evaluation hooks for prompt regressions

Deliverables

  • System prompt draft
  • Policy alignment matrix
  • Evaluation hook list

Prerequisites

  • AE-101

Evaluation signals

  • PROMPT-BASE-001
  • CTRL-POLICY-001

Persona fit

Agent EngineerRisk & Governance

Assistant orchestration

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Scout

Agent

Research horizons, regulation updates, and pattern watchlists.

  • Refresh critical intel within 24 hours of change
  • Maintain 95% citation accuracy
  • Flag module freshness risks automatically

Coach

Agent

Pair with learners during modules, labs, and retrospectives.

  • Median response under 2 seconds
  • Satisfaction above 4.6/5
  • Escalate risky experiments within 10 minutes

Critic

Agent

Guardrails, evaluations, and red-team simulations.

  • Detect 98% evaluation anomalies
  • Zero unlogged high-severity incidents
  • Attach control evidence to every flagged issue

Archivist

Agent

Evidence locker, credential manifests, and knowledge graph links.

  • Tag 100% deliverables with owners and signals
  • Keep schema drift under 1%
  • Generate credential payloads automatically

Companion

Agent

Health, pacing, and personalised nudges across squads.

  • On-time nudges for 90% milestones
  • Keep burnout false positives below 5%
  • Publish weekly sponsor-ready progress snapshots

Navigator

Agent

CTA instrumentation, sponsor digest composition, and mastery guardrails.

  • Cover 95% persona CTAs every sprint
  • Generate sponsor digest drafts within 5 minutes of module completion
  • Hold mastery drift within one tier

Micro lessons

Prompt Skeleton Draft

20 min

Objective: Capture objectives, tone, and constraints in a reusable prompt scaffold.

Activities

  • List success behaviours
  • Define negative prompts
  • Specify tone and persona

Knowledge checks

  • Which behaviours must the agent avoid?
  • What tone should be maintained?

Policy Traceability

30 min

Objective: Document how each policy requirement is enforced within the prompt and tooling.

Activities

  • Extract policy clauses
  • Map them to prompt sections
  • Assign verification method

Knowledge checks

  • Which clause requires human review?
  • How is PII handled?

Evaluation Hook Setup

25 min

Objective: Define regression tests and telemetry tags that monitor prompt drift.

Activities

  • List evaluation scenarios
  • Connect to scripts/eval-harness
  • Assign telemetry labels

Knowledge checks

  • Name the realtime probe you will run.
  • Which telemetry label indicates jailbreak attempts?

Knowledge points

Prompt Guard Patterns

Use clause-based, scoring-based, and retrieval-based guards together to harden agent prompts.

Policy Alignment Matrix

Track policy obligations against prompt instructions and escalation paths.

Micro paths featuring this module

LaunchAgent Engineer

Stand up a dependable coding agent that ships quality pull requests.

Day 1 - Frame and scope
AE-101AE-102
Day 2 - Prototype loop
AE-103RP-201
Day 3 - Guardrails
AE-104OR-501
Day 4 - Demo narrative
CC-401
Day 5 - Handoff
CC-404OR-503
Launch micro path

Credential alignment

This module contributes evidence across multiple credentials. See the credential framework for details.

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