Beginner to Hero: Agentic AI Development: full course guide
Build an agent that does real work: the agent loop, tool design and permissions, testing trajectories without burning tokens, evaluating task success and cost, and deploying with budgets, approval paths and a kill switch.
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What is inside this guide
01Getting Set Up
- What Makes a System Agentic, and When Not to Build One
- The Agent Loop: Plan, Act, Observe, Decide
- Choosing a Framework, or Deliberately Using None
- Project Layout, Configuration and the Local Harness
- Your First Tool-Using Agent, End to End
02The Development Framework
- Tool Design: Schemas, Errors and Idempotency
- State, Memory and What the Agent Is Allowed to Remember
- Planning, Decomposition and Step Limits
- Multi-Agent Handoffs and When One Agent Is Enough
- Permissions: Containing Untrusted Input With Capability, Not Wording
03The Testing Framework
- Unit-Testing Tools Without Calling the Model
- Replaying Recorded Trajectories as Fixtures
- Simulated Environments and Fake Downstreams
- Testing Failure: Timeouts, Loops and Bad Tool Output
- Testing the Guardrails, Including Injection Resistance
04The Evaluation Framework
- Task Success, Step Efficiency and Cost per Completed Task
- Building a Benchmark From Your Own Traffic
- Trajectory Evaluation Versus Final-Answer Evaluation
- Judging Agents With Models, and Auditing the Judge
- Safety and Refusal Evaluation as a First-Class Suite
05The Deployment Framework
- Running Long Tasks: Queues, Workers and Durability
- Human-in-the-Loop Approval and Escalation Paths
- Tracing an Agent Run So an Incident Is Answerable
- Budgets, Kill Switches and Blast-Radius Limits
- Rollout, Shadow Mode and Measuring Real Impact
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