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Foundations of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

  • Definition of an AI agent and its distinction from standard chatbots
  • Typical business applications for assistants and workflow agents
  • Key OpenAI API concepts, including requests and responses
  • Planning a simple agent workflow for business tasks

Setting Up the Development Environment

  • Configuring API access, credentials, and local setup
  • Selecting Python or JavaScript for implementation
  • Executing a first API request and analyzing the result
  • Understanding core request parameters and structured outputs

Prompting and Instruction Design

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

Tool Integration and Multi-Step Workflows

  • Overview of tool usage and function calling patterns
  • Defining simple tools for business tasks and data retrieval
  • Transferring structured data between the model and tools
  • Coordinating a basic multi-step agent workflow

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 strategies
  • Monitoring token consumption, costs, and common failure points

Developing and Reviewing a Simple Business Agent

  • Building a complete end-to-end agent for a realistic business scenario
  • Linking prompts, tools, and workflow logic
  • Testing the agent with sample cases and refining the design
  • Summarizing key learnings and planning next steps for production

Requirements

  • Understanding of basic API concepts and JSON data structures
  • Experience with Python or JavaScript for straightforward scripting tasks
  • Foundational programming knowledge

Target Audience

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