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Foundations of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

  • Understanding what an AI agent is and how it differs from a standard chatbot.
  • Common business use cases for assistants and workflow agents.
  • Core OpenAI API concepts, including requests and responses.
  • Planning a simple agent workflow for a specific 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 the output.
  • Gaining an understanding of basic request parameters and structured output.

Prompting and Instruction Design

  • Writing clear instructions to guide agent behavior.
  • Structuring prompts for reliable and useful responses.
  • Incorporating examples, constraints, and specific output formats.
  • Avoiding common mistakes 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.
  • 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 management.
  • Ensuring responses remain focused, consistent, and task-oriented.
  • Implementing basic guardrails, moderation, and fallback mechanisms.
  • Monitoring token usage, costs, and common failure points.

Constructing and Reviewing a Simple Business Agent

  • Building 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 learned and outlining next steps for production planning.

Requirements

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

Audience

  • Developers looking to create practical AI assistants and workflow agents.
  • Technical product teams exploring applications powered by OpenAI.
  • Solution architects and innovation teams assessing agent use cases.
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