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Foundations of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

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

Getting Started with the Development Environment

  • Setting up API access, credentials, and local environment
  • Selecting Python or JavaScript for implementation
  • Executing an initial API request and analyzing results
  • Understanding basic request parameters and structured output formats

Prompting and Instruction Design

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

Tool Use and Multi-Step Workflows

  • Introduction to tool integration and function calling patterns
  • Defining simple tools for business tasks and data retrieval
  • Transmitting 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-aligned responses
  • Implementing basic guardrails, moderation, and fallback handling
  • 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 its design
  • Summarizing key lessons and outlining next steps for production planning

Requirements

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

Audience

  • Developers aiming to build practical AI assistants and workflow agents
  • Technical product teams investigating OpenAI-powered applications
  • Solution architects and innovation teams assessing agent use cases
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