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Foundations of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

  • Definition of an AI agent and distinctions from basic chatbots
  • Common business use cases for assistants and workflow agents
  • Core OpenAI API concepts, request structures, and responses
  • Planning a simple agent workflow for a business task

Setting Up the Development Environment

  • Preparing API access, credentials, and local setup
  • Selecting Python or JavaScript for implementation
  • Executing a first API request and reviewing results
  • Understanding basic request parameters and structured output formats

Prompting and Instruction Design

  • Writing clear instructions to guide agent behavior
  • Structuring prompts for reliable and useful responses
  • Using examples, constraints, and specific output formats
  • Avoiding common pitfalls in prompt design

Tool Integration and Multi-Step Workflows

  • Introduction to tool use and function calling patterns
  • Defining simple tools for business tasks and data retrieval
  • Passing 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 session state management
  • Ensuring responses remain focused, consistent, and task-oriented
  • Applying basic guardrails, moderation, and fallback mechanisms
  • Monitoring token usage, costs, and common failure points

Building and Reviewing a Simple Business Agent

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

Requirements

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

Target Audience

  • Developers aiming to create practical AI assistants and workflow automation agents
  • Technical product teams exploring applications powered by OpenAI
  • Solution architects and innovation teams evaluating potential agent use cases
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