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 Duration 7 hours

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Core Concepts of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

  • Defining what an AI agent is and distinguishing it from a standard chatbot
  • Typical business applications for assistants and workflow agents
  • Fundamental OpenAI API concepts, request structures, and response handling
  • Designing a basic agent workflow for specific business tasks

Setting Up the Development Environment

  • Configuring API access, managing credentials, and local environment setup
  • Selecting Python or JavaScript as the implementation language
  • Executing the initial API request and analyzing the output
  • Comprehending basic request parameters and structured output formats

Prompt Engineering and Instruction Design

  • Formulating clear directives for agent behavior
  • Constructing prompts to ensure reliable and valuable responses
  • Incorporating examples, constraints, and specific output formats
  • Mitigating common errors in prompt design

Utilizing Tools and Multi-Step Workflows

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

Context Management, Reliability, and Safety

  • Handling multi-turn conversations and maintaining session state
  • Ensuring responses remain focused, consistent, and relevant to the task
  • Implementing basic guardrails, content moderation, and fallback mechanisms
  • Tracking token usage, costs, and identifying common failure points

Developing and Evaluating a Basic Business Agent

  • Constructing a small, end-to-end agent for a realistic business scenario
  • Integrating prompts, tools, and workflow logic
  • Testing the agent with sample cases and iteratively improving the design
  • Recapping key takeaways and outlining next steps for production deployment

Requirements

  • Working knowledge of fundamental API concepts and JSON data structures
  • Proficiency in Python or JavaScript for basic scripting tasks
  • General programming experience

Target Audience

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

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