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Syllabus

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Language models

  1. Language Models
  2. What Is an API Key
  3. Talking to a Model
  4. Your First API Call
  5. Message Roles
  6. Conversation History
  7. Structured Outputs

Agents

  1. Chatbots and Agents
  2. Tools and Skills
  3. The Tool-Call Loop
  4. When SDK Runs the Loop
  5. Multiple Tools

Reasoning & RAG

  1. ReAct Pattern
  2. Embeddings
  3. RAG

State & graphs

  1. Why Simple Loops Break
  2. Explicit State
  3. Branching and Graphs
  4. Persistence & HITL
  5. Agent Frameworks
  6. Framework Agent

Teams & MCP

  1. Multi-Agent Patterns
  2. What Is MCP
  3. Build an MCP Server
  4. Agents with MCP Tools

Quality & safety

  1. Input Validation
  2. Evaluating Agents
  3. Prompt Injection