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AAM · 48 hrs · 12 modules

AI Agents Mastery

Design, build, and ship production-grade autonomous agents.

A full diploma covering agent foundations, reasoning and planning, tool use, memory, multi-agent orchestration, evaluation, and safety. Each module gates the next via an 80%+ quiz score.

Capstone project

Ship a Production AI Agent With Tools, RAG, Guardrails & Evals

Design, build, evaluate, and deploy a real domain agent that uses tools, retrieves from your own knowledge base, respects safety guardrails, and is observable in production.

25–40 hours over 2–3 weeks · 9 deliverables · rubric out of 100 · passing score 70

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  1. 1

    Foundations of AI Agents

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    What an AI agent is, how it differs from a chatbot, core components, and the agent lifecycle.

  2. 2

    Reasoning & Architectures

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, Chain-of-Thought, and Action Graphs — the architectural patterns behind modern agents.

    Pass Module 1 to unlock
  3. 3

    Memory Systems

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    Short-term, long-term, and episodic memory; vector databases; tool use; reasoning patterns.

    Pass Module 2 to unlock
  4. 4

    Prompt Engineering for Agents

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    System prompts, instruction design, guardrails, and multi-step prompting.

    Pass Module 3 to unlock
  5. 5

    Multi-Agent Systems

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    Agent roles, communication, supervisors, and collaboration patterns.

    Pass Module 4 to unlock
  6. 6

    Tool Use & API Integration

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    APIs for agents, tool schemas, error handling, and secure tool use.

    Pass Module 5 to unlock
  7. 7

    Safety & Alignment

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    Safety principles, alignment strategies, harm prevention, and sandboxing.

    Pass Module 6 to unlock
  8. 8

    Evaluation & Benchmarking

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    Evaluation frameworks, benchmark design, failure modes, and continuous evaluation.

    Pass Module 7 to unlock
  9. 9

    Deployment

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    Runtime environments, scaling, monitoring, and logging for production agents.

    Pass Module 8 to unlock
  10. 10

    Scaling & Observability

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    Scaling patterns, observability tools, metrics, and alerting.

    Pass Module 9 to unlock
  11. 11

    Advanced Agent Patterns

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    Self-reflection, planning agents, recursive agents, and self-healing agents.

    Pass Module 10 to unlock
  12. 12

    Capstone Preparation

    Quiz · 10Q · 80% to pass

    The multi-stage capstone: problem definition, architecture, implementation, and final submission.

    Pass Module 11 to unlock