Modern cloud applications don't just move data — they make decisions. A file arrives, a risk score is calculated, and the system needs to route it, quarantine it, or escalate it — all without a human in the loop. That's the promise of agentic AI, and GCP AgentFlow is the toolkit I built to make it practical on Google Cloud. Why Agentic Orchestration Matters Traditional event-driven architectures are reactive: an event arrives, a function runs, data moves. Agentic architectures go a step further — they evaluate context, apply decision logic, and determine what should happen next based on the current state of the system.…