Paperclip Pipelines
Agentic AI Essentials · Hands-on micro-session
Session Objective
A pipeline is not one AI tool doing one task. It's multiple AI agents chained together, where one agent's output automatically becomes the next agent's input. The difference between an AI user and an AI Officer is that an AI Officer builds systems that run when they're not in the room. The hardest part isn't understanding how pipelines work - it's designing the handoffs tight enough that data doesn't get lost or misformatted between steps.
Your Challenge
Complete the following steps
What to Submit to Your AI Buddy
The name of the process you chose.
Your 3-step pipeline diagram (text format is fine):
One paragraph describing your handoff risk - where could this pipeline break?
Grading Criteria
Real process
The workflow you chose is something you actually do, not a theoretical example.
Clear inputs and outputs
Each step knows what to expect from the previous step. No vague descriptions.
Identified risk
You've spotted a real handoff problem - not something trivial, but something that could actually cause the pipeline to fail or produce wrong results.
Handoff design
You've thought about what format Agent 2 needs to receive from Agent 1, and so on. The pipeline could actually run if built this way.
