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AI Agents & Workflows - The Practical Guide
Getting Started
- Welcome To The Course! (1:22)
- What Is An AI Agent? (2:13)
- General vs Task-specific Agents (2:39)
- Where Agents Run / Execute (2:07)
- AI Agent Harnesses, LLMs & Limitations (3:25)
- How Agents Use Tools (5:15)
- Understanding Session Context (2:17)
- Core AI Agent Building Blocks - Overview (2:25)
- AI Agents vs AI Workflows (2:18)
Using & Steering AI Agents
- Module Introduction (0:57)
- Three Main Ways For Controlling AI Agents You Should Know (0:49)
- Managing Agent Tools & The Environment (3:42)
- Choosing The Right Model (1:17)
- Understanding Developer-provided System Instructions (1:39)
- Providing Your Own Instructions & Understanding AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md (3:29)
- Understanding Agent Skills (8:28)
- Understanding Agent Memory (3:23)
- Sometimes Important: Humans In The Loop (2:57)
Building Agents & Workflows - An Overview
- Module Introduction (0:36)
- Options For Building Agents & Workflows (2:46)
- WHO Builds It, WHERE Does It Run? (3:36)
- Options When Building WITH Code (0:52)
- Choosing Your Agent Building Blocks (1:56)
Building AI Workflows & Applications
- Module Introduction & Expectations (1:35)
- Building Workflows - The Basics (1:20)
- Workflows vs Agents (2:39)
- Building Visually with n8n - First Steps (2:38)
- Running a Demo n8n Project Locally (1:41)
- Exploring n8n & Its Workflow Builder (6:44)
- Exploring & Understanding a Realistic Workflow (4:24)
- Onwards To A Code-based Solution! (3:15)
- Exploring & Understanding A Code-based Workflow (6:20)
- Module Summary (1:11)
Building AI Workflows & Applications [LEGACY]
- About This LEGACY Section
- Module Introduction (2:21)
- No Code vs With Code (2:07)
- Building AI Apps & Using AI Programmatically (4:12)
- Proprietary vs Open (Local) LLMs (5:51)
- Using Open LLMs
- Understanding Our Development Environment (2:29)
- Creating a New Python Project (using "uv") (1:43)
- OpenAI Setup & Pricing (5:41)
- Getting Started With A First Example Workflow (2:44)
- Preparing HTTP Requests For The OpenAI API (8:40)
- Choosing & Using a Model (2:04)
- Prompt Engineering (4:35)
- Extracting & Using the LLM Response (4:50)
- More on the OpenAI API & SDK
- Code Deep Dives vs Provided Code Snippets
- Use Those Docs! (1:38)
- Using The OpenAI Python SDK (5:49)
- Leveraging Few-Shot Prompting (4:02)
- Generating Prompts Dynamically With Dynamic Content (2:12)
- Building Multi-Step & Multi-Model Workflows (6:47)
- Workflows vs Agentic Systems (1:34)
- Using Locally Running Open Models via Ollama (8:08)
- Enforcing & Using Structured Outputs (10:53)
- More On JSON Schemas & Structured Outputs
- Structured Outputs via SDK & Pydantic (3:56)
- Using Prompt Engineering To Control Output
- Onwards To Another Example (5:38)
- Generating Images In a Workflow (6:27)
- Controlling Workflow Execution with Control Flow Adjustments (2:45)
- Control Flow In Action (8:42)
- Adding a "Human In The Loop" (6:51)
- Integrating External Services - Example: Slack (6:21)
- Important: Potential Problems & Security Risks
Build AI Agents
- Module Introduction & Expectations (1:55)
- Setting Up & Starting the n8n Demo Project Server (3:08)
- Creating Agents Visually With n8n (3:42)
- Understanding Tools & The Agent Harness (in n8n) (2:51)
- Running The n8n Agent (2:45)
- Finding Key Agent Building Blocks in n8n (0:59)
- Onwards To Code-based Agents! (3:53)
- Defining Tools As Functions (2:26)
- Analyzing The Agent Loop (3:23)
- How The Agent Learns About Tools & Behaves Correctly (6:03)
- Using Provider-native Tooling To Make Things Easier (5:14)
- Onwards To A General Agent (1:43)
- Analyzing Tools, Instructions & Context Engineering For A General Agent (6:19)
- Demo: Using The General Agent (3:15)
- Analyzing An Example Sandbox Implementation (2:44)
- Adding A Human To The Agent Loop (2:35)
- How Agent Execution Is Constrained (3:21)
Building AI Agents [LEGACY]
- About This LEGACY Section
- Module Introduction (1:36)
- How LLMs (Do Not) Use Tools (6:04)
- Implementing Tool Use From Scratch (11:24)
- Using OpenAI's Function Calling Feature (10:23)
- Building a Multi-Tool Versatile Agent (11:16)
- Using Advanced AI Models
- Building Reusable Elements With Classes (7:53)
- Getting Started with a Multi-Agent System (7:14)
- Extracting Website Content
- Building & Connecting Specialized Agents (10:24)
- Universal vs Specialized Agents (3:38)
- Agent Memory: Short-Term & Long-Term (5:21)
- Wrap Up (1:09)
Build Agents With Frameworks - With "eve"
- Module Introduction (0:52)
- Library & Framework Options - An Overview (0:58)
- Libraries vs Frameworks (2:33)
- An Introduction To The "eve" Framework (2:23)
- Diving Into An "eve" Project (2:53)
- Configuring Tools For The "eve" Agent (2:32)
- Connecting The Agent To A Knowledge Base & Skills (3:52)
- Seeing The "eve" Agent In Action (3:58)
- Deep Dive: Connecting Slack As A Channel (9:06)
- More On Tunnels / cloudflared
- Onwards To CrewAI (0:34)
Using CrewAI: A Third-Party AI Agents SDK
- Module Introduction (2:36)
- Getting Started With CrewAI (4:56)
- Understanding CrewAI Agents (5:53)
- Using CrewAI Tasks (3:25)
- Adding Tools To Agents (4:14)
- Running The Crew (3:11)
Roundup
Creating a New Python Project (using "uv")
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