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Foundations of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

  • Defining an AI agent and distinguishing it from basic chatbots
  • Common business use cases for assistants and workflow agents
  • Core concepts of OpenAI APIs, including requests and responses
  • Planning a simple agent workflow for a business task

Getting Started with the Development Environment

  • Setting up API access, credentials, and local configurations
  • Selecting between Python or JavaScript for implementation
  • Executing a first API request and analyzing the results
  • Understanding basic request parameters and structured outputs

Prompting and Instruction Design

  • Crafting clear instructions to guide agent behavior
  • Structuring prompts for consistent and valuable responses
  • Utilizing examples, constraints, and specific output formats
  • Avoiding common pitfalls in prompt design

Tool Use and Multi-Step Workflows

  • Introduction to tool usage and function calling patterns
  • Defining simple tools for business tasks and data retrieval
  • Transmitting structured data between the model and tools
  • Coordinating a basic multi-step agent workflow

Managing Context, Reliability, and Safety

  • Handling multi-turn conversations and session state management
  • Ensuring responses remain focused, consistent, and task-oriented
  • Implementing basic guardrails, moderation, and fallback mechanisms
  • Monitoring token usage, costs, and common failure points

Building and Reviewing a Simple Business Agent

 
  • Developing a small end-to-end agent for a realistic business scenario
  • Integrating prompts, tools, and workflow logic
  • Testing the agent with sample cases and refining the design
  • Summarizing key takeaways and outlining next steps for production deployment

Requirements

  • Familiarity with fundamental API concepts and JSON data structures
  • Experience using Python or JavaScript for basic scripting tasks
  • Foundational programming knowledge

Audience

  • Developers seeking to build functional AI assistants and workflow agents
  • Technical product teams investigating OpenAI-enabled applications
  • Solution architects and innovation teams assessing agent use cases
 7 Hours

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