Lesson 1
What Agents Are
Define the agent loop, boundaries, and the minimum contract for reliable behavior.
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Design and ship production-grade AI agents with reliable tools, memory, and safety.
This masterclass is for builders who already ship AI features and want to design real agents that can operate for hours, not minutes. You will move from prompt-first experiments to robust systems with clear contracts, measurable reliability, and cost controls.
By the end of this course, you will:
Lesson 1: What Agents Are - definitions, boundaries, and control loops Lesson 2: Architectures - reactive, deliberative, and hybrid designs Lesson 3: Tool Use - schema-first tools and execution safety Lesson 4: Memory Management - short-term, long-term, and retrieval Lesson 5: Multi-Agent Systems - roles, coordination, and contracts Lesson 6: Error Handling - failure modes and recovery strategies Lesson 7: Deployment - services, queues, and observability Lesson 8: Cost Optimization - budgets, caching, and routing Lesson 9: Security - prompt injection, data safety, and permissions Lesson 10: Building Your Stack - choosing the right components
Start with Lesson 1 to align your definitions and design goals.
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Lesson 1
Define the agent loop, boundaries, and the minimum contract for reliable behavior.
Lesson 2
Compare reactive, deliberative, and hybrid agent designs and choose the right fit.
Lesson 3
Design tools with strict schemas, safety checks, and clear side effects.
Lesson 4
Build short-term, long-term, and retrieval memory that improves outputs without risk.
Lesson 5
Design roles, contracts, and coordination for agents that work as a team.
Lesson 6
Design retries, fallbacks, and guardrails for predictable agent recovery.
Lesson 7
Ship agents as reliable services with queues, observability, and safe runtime limits.
Lesson 8
Control token spend with budgets, caching, and model routing without sacrificing quality.
Lesson 9
Protect agents against prompt injection, data leakage, and unsafe tool execution.
Lesson 10
Assemble a production-ready stack with the right tradeoffs for your agent.