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Foundations of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

  • Definition of an AI agent and distinctions from standard chatbots
  • Common business use cases for assistants and workflow agents
  • Core concepts of the OpenAI API, including requests and responses
  • Planning a simple agent workflow for a specific business task

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 results
  • Understanding basic request parameters and structured output formats

Prompt Engineering and Instruction Design

  • Writing clear directives for agent behavior
  • Structuring prompts to ensure reliable and useful responses
  • Utilizing examples, constraints, and specific output formats
  • Avoiding common pitfalls in prompt design

Tool Integration 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 tools
  • Orchestrating a basic multi-step agent workflow

Managing Context, Reliability, and Safety

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

Building and Reviewing a Simple Business Agent

  • Developing a small 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

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

Audience

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