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Foundations of AI Agents and OpenAI APIs

  • Definition of an AI agent and its distinction from standard chatbots
  • Typical business use cases for assistant and workflow agents
  • Essential OpenAI API concepts, request structures, and responses
  • Planning a simple agent workflow for specific business tasks

Getting Started with the Development Environment

  • Setting up API access, credentials, and local configurations
  • Selecting Python or JavaScript for implementation
  • Making initial API requests and interpreting results
  • Understanding basic request parameters and structured output formats

Prompting and Instruction Design

  • Drafting clear instructions for agent behavior
  • Structuring prompts for consistent and valuable responses
  • Incorporating examples, constraints, and specific output formats
  • Avoiding common pitfalls in prompt design

Tool Use and Multi-Step Workflows

  • Introduction to tool integration 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 potential 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 its design
  • Summarizing key takeaways and outlining next steps for production deployment

Requirements

  • Knowledge of basic API concepts and JSON data
  • Experience with Python or JavaScript for simple scripting
  • Foundational programming skills

Audience

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