Course Specialization

AI Agent Development

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Program Overview

Build tool-using AI applications with explicit workflows, state, memory, system integrations, guardrails, evaluation, observability, and human review.

Skills & Tools

  • Tool & Function Calling
  • Workflow Planning
  • State & Memory
  • System Integration
  • Agent Patterns
  • Guardrails
  • Evaluation & Observability

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Tool & Function Calling

Define typed tools, validate inputs and outputs, handle permissions, and connect model decisions to controlled application actions.

Module 2: Workflow Planning

Model deterministic and model-assisted workflows, break goals into bounded steps, and design explicit stop and recovery conditions.

Module 3: State & Memory

Manage session state, durable task data, retrieval-backed memory, retention boundaries, and user-controlled context.

Module 4: API & Business-System Integration

Integrate approved APIs and business systems with authentication, authorization, idempotency, validation, and audit-friendly records.

Module 5: Single-Agent & Multi-Agent Patterns

Compare orchestration patterns and select the simplest architecture that meets a use case without overstating autonomous behavior.

Module 6: Guardrails & Human Review

Add policy checks, scoped permissions, confirmations, escalation paths, and meaningful review before consequential actions.

Module 7: Evaluation & Observability

Create scenario tests, trace tool use, measure reliability and latency, review failures, and monitor changes over time.

Module 8: Agent Deployment Capstone

Deploy a bounded agent workflow with secure tools, durable state, evaluation evidence, operational monitoring, and a human fallback.

Capstone Projects

Operations Support Agent

Build a permission-aware agent that gathers context, proposes actions, and requires review before updating a connected system.

Agent Deployment Capstone

Deliver and evaluate a tool-using workflow with durable state, observability, failure recovery, and documented operating limits.

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