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Foundations of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

  • Understanding what an AI agent is and how it differs from a basic chatbot.
  • Common business use cases for assistants and workflow agents.
  • Core OpenAI API concepts, requests, and responses.
  • Planning a simple agent workflow for a business task.

Getting Started with the Development Environment

  • Preparing API access, credentials, and local setup.
  • Choosing between Python or JavaScript for implementation.
  • Making a first API request and reviewing the result.
  • Understanding basic request parameters and structured output.

Prompting and Instruction Design

  • Writing clear instructions for agent behavior.
  • Structuring prompts for reliable and useful responses.
  • Using examples, constraints, and output formats.
  • Avoiding common prompt design mistakes.

Tool Use and Multi-Step Workflows

  • Introduction to tool use and function calling patterns.
  • Defining simple tools for business tasks and data lookup.
  • Passing structured data between the model and tools.
  • Orchestrating a basic multi-step agent workflow.

Managing Context, Reliability, and Safety

  • Working with multi-turn conversations and session state.
  • Keeping responses focused, consistent, and on task.
  • Applying basic guardrails, moderation, and fallback handling.
  • Monitoring token usage, cost, 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 lessons learned and next steps for production planning.

Requirements

  • Familiarity with basic API concepts and JSON data.
  • Experience with Python or JavaScript for simple scripting tasks.
  • Basic programming experience.

Audience

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