Agentic Development Tools and Resources

What is Agentic Development Tools and Resources | AXD Institute?

Agentic Development Tools and Resources — an AXD Institute resource on agentic experience design, agentic commerce, trust architecture, and human agent interaction. Founded by Tony Wood..

How does AXD differ from traditional UX?

Why is trust architecture important for agentic AI?

Key concepts in Agentic Development Tools and Resources | AXD Institute

How do what developer tools support agentic experience design relate to agentic commerce?

  1. Agency requires intentional delegation — every agentic system begins with a designed act of delegation
  2. Trust is the primary material — AXD works in trust rather than attention
  3. Absence is the primary use state — the most consequential experiences happen when no one is watching
  4. Relationships have temporality — agentic experiences accumulate history over time
  5. Outcomes replace outputs — AXD designers specify results, not interfaces
DimensionTraditional UXAgentic Experience Design (AXD)
Primary materialAttention and affordanceTrust and delegation
User statePresent, navigatingAbsent, delegating
Design outputScreens and interfacesOutcomes and constraints
Temporal modelSession-basedRelationship-based
Success metricTask completionTrust calibration

Frequently Asked Questions

What developer tools support agentic experience design?

Developer tools for AXD include: delegation contract validators, trust state debuggers, agent observability dashboards, scope enforcement testing frameworks, interrupt simulation tools, and recovery protocol test harnesses. These tools help developers build and verify trust-governed agent behaviour.

How do developers test agentic AI experiences?

Testing agentic experiences requires: delegation scope testing (verifying agents stay within bounds), trust calibration testing (verifying trust adjusts correctly), absent-state testing (verifying behaviour when unobserved), interrupt testing (verifying communication quality), and recovery testing (verifying graceful failure handling).

What monitoring tools are needed for agentic systems?

Agentic systems need monitoring tools for: real-time action tracking, decision audit trails, scope violation detection, trust level dashboards, interrupt delivery confirmation, and recovery process tracking. These tools must provide both real-time operational views and historical audit capabilities for compliance and trust calibration.

Key Takeaways

Agentic Experience Design (AXD) is a new discipline for the age of autonomous AI. It addresses trust architecture, delegation design, and human agent interaction — the core challenges of agentic commerce and agentic shopping.

References and Citations

Gartner: Machine Customers Will Be a Multibillion-Dollar Opportunity Harvard Business Review: The Age of AI Agents McKinsey: The State of AI in 2024 About the AXD Institute Contact Us Email the AXD Institute Tony Wood on LinkedIn Tony Wood on X (Twitter)