Integration

8 build exercises to practise the concepts in this domain.

3.1 — Tool-Surface Audit With Least-Privilege Justification

How to inventory an agent tool surface against the role task list
How to name the control category of every mitigation and the gap it leaves
When to remove, scope, or consolidate a tool
How to write a per-tool justification that survives review

3.2 — Identity-Chain Map, Hop by Hop

How to draw the full identity chain of an agent integration
How to spot the hop where effective privilege exceeds user need
Where credentials belong, how they are scoped, and what a leak response looks like
How to verify per-hop authentication and per-call attribution

3.3 — Decompose a Latency Budget Against Its SLA

How to break a request path into its latency terms and find the dominant one
How to name the requirement each accuracy control protects
How to design routing, caching, and parallelism changes that hold both numbers
How to write a configuration justification that cites the SLA and the quality bar

3.4 — Design the Observability Plan for One Pipeline

How to define a trace schema that makes any single failure diagnosable
How to split monitoring into cheap aggregates and sampled payloads
How to build a calibrated quality signal on production traffic
How to choose drift alerts on tail percentiles and write a payload privacy policy

3.5 — RAG Pipeline Design Dossier

How to decide whether a corpus needs RAG at all
How to design structure-aware chunking with contextual enrichment
How to choose hybrid indexing components query family by query family
How to write the freshness runbook and the stage-isolated retrieval evaluation

3.6 — Retrieval Strategy Matrix for One Estate

How to classify data sources by shape and queries by pattern
How to name the failure that matters per source-pattern pair
How to assign the cheapest strategy whose failure mode is acceptable
How to defend an expensive assignment with a concrete breakage argument

3.7 — Consumer-Pattern Worksheet for Three Integrations

How to count consumers, surfaces, and owners before choosing a mechanism
How to apply the does-the-counterpart-decide test
How to assign MCP, direct, headless, or agent-to-agent with a written argument
How to stress-test an assignment against plausible growth

3.8 — Capability-Loading Plan for a Growing Agent

How to inventory a capability surface across tools, procedures, and knowledge
How to measure the four cues: slice ratio, frequency, latency budget, stability
How to partition a surface into a cached core and a discovered tail
How to verify the design against its SLA and its growth trajectory