Build Your First AI Agent
From chatbot to agent — tools, state, integrations, and human-in-the-loop.
An advanced course for AI champions, IT consultants, and internal builders ready to graduate from "chat with the model" to "build the agent." Learn how tools and tool definitions work, the multi-turn tool-use loop, state and memory, real-service integrations, error handling, and approval gates. By the end you've shipped a working agent that does multi-step work in a real business setting.
About 480 minutes.
Lessons
- Lesson 1 — What an agent actually is (60 min)
- Lesson 2 — Tools and tool definitions (60 min)
- Lesson 3 — The tool-use loop (60 min)
- Lesson 4 — State, memory, and context (60 min)
- Lesson 5 — Hooking the agent to real services (60 min)
- Lesson 6 — Errors, retries, and recovery (60 min)
- Lesson 7 — Approval gates and human-in-the-loop (60 min)
- Lesson 8 — Ship it (60 min)