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Foundations of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

  • Defining an AI agent and distinguishing it from standard chatbots
  • Common commercial use cases for assistants and workflow agents
  • Key OpenAI API concepts, including request and response structures
  • Designing a simple agent workflow for a business objective

Setting Up the Development Environment

  • Configuring API access, credentials, and local development setup
  • Selecting Python or JavaScript for implementation
  • Executing an initial API request and analyzing the response
  • Understanding core request parameters and structured output formats

Prompt Engineering and Instruction Design

  • Crafting clear directives for agent behavior
  • Structuring prompts to ensure reliable and valuable responses
  • Leveraging 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 operations and data retrieval
  • Transferring structured data between the model and tools
  • Orchestrating a basic multi-step agent workflow

Managing Context, Reliability, and Safety

  • Handling multi-turn conversations and session state
  • Maintaining focused, consistent, and task-oriented responses
  • Implementing basic guardrails, moderation, and fallback mechanisms
  • Monitoring token consumption, costs, and potential failure points

Developing and Reviewing a Simple Business Agent

  • Building a complete 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 readiness

Requirements

  • Knowledge of fundamental API concepts and JSON data structures
  • Proficiency in Python or JavaScript for basic scripting tasks
  • Foundational programming experience

Target Audience

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