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Fundamentals of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

  • Defining an AI agent and distinguishing it from standard chatbots
  • Exploring common business use cases for assistants and workflow agents
  • Understanding core OpenAI API concepts, including requests and responses
  • Planning simple agent workflows for specific business tasks

Setting Up the Development Environment

  • Configuring API access, credentials, and local setup
  • Selecting between Python or JavaScript for implementation
  • Executing an initial API request and analyzing results
  • Understanding key request parameters and structured output formats

Prompt Engineering and Instruction Design

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

Utilizing Tools and Multi-Step Workflows

  • Introduction to tool usage and function calling patterns
  • Defining simple tools for business tasks and data retrieval
  • Transferring structured data between the model and external tools
  • Orchestrating basic multi-step agent workflows

Managing Context, Reliability, and Safety

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

Developing and Reviewing a Basic Business Agent

  • Constructing 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 the design
  • Summarizing key learnings and outlining next steps for production deployment

Requirements

  • Understanding of fundamental API concepts and JSON data structures
  • Proficiency in Python or JavaScript for basic scripting
  • Foundational programming knowledge

Target Audience

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