Agentic AI Reference Architecture

Human Oversight · Human role

Release Approver

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A senior engineer or reviewer who examines evaluation evidence for an agent change and decides trade-off cases, gate overrides and threshold changes with documented justification.

Responsibility. Makes accountable human decisions on agent changes that automated gates cannot resolve.

Also known as: Senior engineer, PR reviewer, QA engineer, Product manager staging tester, Deployment protection approver, Operations lead, Product manager reviewer

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Relationships

invokes dependency

receives data from dynamic

receives escalation from dynamic

sends data to dynamic

approves control

overrides control

evaluates assurance

Design guidance

Quantitative guidance

As stated by the sources; verify before use.

Sources

  1. Ch3.1A: T. Nguyen, "Implement Evaluation Pipelines and Task Benchmarks," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 3.1A. ISBN: 9798244538229.
  2. Ch3.1B: T. Nguyen, "Implement Evaluation Pipelines and Task Benchmarks - Guided Practice," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 3.1B. ISBN: 9798244538229.
  3. Ch4.1: T. Nguyen, "Introduction to AI Agent Deployment and Scaling," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 4.1. ISBN: 9798244538229.
  4. Ch4.2: T. Nguyen, "Deployment and Scaling," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 4.2. ISBN: 9798244538229.
  5. Ch4.4: T. Nguyen, "Performance Profiling and Optimization," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 4.4. ISBN: 9798244538229.
  6. Ref8.03: "Agent Evaluation Frameworks and Metrics," unpublished reference note (03-Agent-Evaluation-Frameworks.md), Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam supplementary materials, 2026. unpublished note