Get in Touch

Course Outline

Foundations of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

  • Defining what an AI agent is and how it distinguishes itself from a standard chatbot.
  • Common business applications for assistants and workflow agents.
  • Key concepts of the OpenAI API, including request and response structures.
  • Planning a straightforward agent workflow for a specific business task.

Setting Up the Development Environment

  • Preparing API access, managing credentials, and configuring the local environment.
  • Selecting between Python or JavaScript for implementation.
  • Executing an initial API request and analyzing the output.
  • Understanding fundamental request parameters and structured outputs.

Prompting and Instruction Design

  • Crafting clear instructions to guide agent behavior.
  • Structuring prompts to ensure reliable and useful responses.
  • Utilizing examples, constraints, and specific output formats.
  • Identifying and avoiding common pitfalls in prompt design.

Tool Integration 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 external tools.
  • Orchestrating a basic multi-step agent workflow.

Managing Context, Reliability, and Safety

  • Handling multi-turn conversations and maintaining session state.
  • Ensuring responses remain focused, consistent, and aligned with tasks.
  • Implementing basic guardrails, moderation techniques, and fallback strategies.
  • Monitoring token consumption, costs, and identifying common failure points.

Constructing and Reviewing a Simple Business Agent

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

Requirements

  • Familiarity with fundamental API concepts and JSON data structures.
  • Proficiency in Python or JavaScript for simple scripting tasks.
  • Basic programming experience.

Audience

  • Developers interested in creating practical AI assistants and workflow agents.
  • Technical product teams investigating OpenAI-driven applications.
  • Solution architects and innovation units assessing potential agent use cases.
 7 Hours

Number of participants


Price per participant

Upcoming Courses

Related Categories