What you’ll learn to do
Define a useful task, set action boundaries, and judge whether an agent’s output meets your criteria.
YOUR FIRST AGENT · 7 PRACTICAL STAGES
Build Your First AI Agent
A portable agent that uses approved tools, asks for missing information, and produces work you can check.
Your starting pointBring one work task and a way to judge the result. The mentor can handle the code.
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YOUR PROJECT AND YOUR LEARNING
Build it.
Learn to judge it.
Check a request before acting
Illustrative example · You bring your own task.
Illustrative response, not a live agent or a recorded learner result.
Your request
Find the return window in this sample policy, then request a return.
Sample store policy: returns are accepted within 30 days of delivery.
Example agent response
The policy allows returns within 30 days of delivery. What is your order number?
No return submitted. The order number and approval are still needed.
Your checkRemove a required detail or deny approval. Check that the agent asks instead of inventing information or acting anyway.
How you’ll check your learning
Try a held-out input, compare the result with your criteria, and explain what needs to change.
INSIDE A LESSON
Change one rule. Check what actually changes.
Adapted from “Give your agent a clear job”. This is a course exercise, not a student conversation.
- 01
Start with your task
Run your agent with its current instructions. Keep the answer and your criteria for a useful result.
- 02
Make one deliberate change
Write one new rule in your own words. Predict what will change, then run the same request and input again.
- 03
Compare and explain
Find what changed in the two answers. If nothing changed, record that too. Explain what you would keep or change next.
Your part
Choose the task, write the rule, predict the change, start the runs and judge the evidence.
Your AI mentor’s part
Explain the next step, help with the technical setup and discuss what the results show. You can choose to write code yourself.
THE COURSE PROGRAM
7 practical stages.
One useful project.
A clear job, tool use, clarification, permission boundaries and evaluation on new inputs.
Start with stages 01–03 free after signing in. No card required. A subscription is required for stages 04–07. External tools may cost extra.
Check what you need ↓A task worth delegating
Introduction · Free- What you’ll do
- Choose one work task and define how you will judge the answer.
- What you’ll have
- A task with clear success criteria.
Give your agent a clear job
Included free- What you’ll do
- Write instructions for the job and compare two versions.
- What you’ll have
- Instructions whose effect you can explain.
Let it look something up
Included free- What you’ll do
- Give the agent an approved lookup tool and inspect what it uses.
- What you’ll have
- An answer you can trace to a tool result.
Know when to ask
Subscription- What you’ll do
- Remove a needed detail and test how the agent responds.
- What you’ll have
- A clarification request instead of an invented fact.
Keep actions within bounds
Subscription- What you’ll do
- Change what the agent is allowed to do and compare its actions.
- What you’ll have
- Boundaries you have tested on a concrete task.
Decide whether it helped
Subscription- What you’ll do
- Try an input you did not use while building the agent.
- What you’ll have
- A checked result and a list of remaining limitations.
Take your agent with you
Subscription- What you’ll do
- Package your agent and test it on another input.
- What you’ll have
- A project you can take away with instructions for running it.
Before you try
- Free on this website: read every course program and get up to 10 guest replies from the course advisor. No sign-up required.
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Guest advice and the free learning phases are separate. Neither includes the full course or free external tools.
What happens when I select “Try for free”?
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What will I practice beyond prompting?
A clear job, tool use, clarification, permission boundaries and evaluation on new inputs.
Will my advisor conversation move with me?
Your guest conversation stays on this website. It is not transferred to your app account. Bring your task and any useful notes when you start.
YOUR NEXT STEP
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