Introduction to AI Agents

About this course

Understand AI agents through their tools, decision loops, memory and evaluation, with human oversight built into the workflow.

This foundation course is part of the Agentic AI & Intelligent Automation school. The curriculum includes an estimated 8 h of study content. Instructor-led delivery is available online or offline; session schedules are confirmed during enrollment.

Course curriculum

• Module 1 — What Is an AI Agent?
• Module 2 — Tools: How Agents Act
• Module 3 — The Agent Loop
• Module 4 — Context, Memory and Knowledge
• Module 5 — Safety, Permissions and Human Oversight
• Module 6 — Evaluating and Deploying Agents

Applied learning

• Case Study — The Storm-Night Outage Agent
• Lab 1 — Tools and schemas
• Lab 2 — Your first agent loop
• Lab 3 — Guardrails and evaluation
• Capstone — An Agent Proposal with a Safety and Evaluation Plan

Who this course is for

Student / Beginner; Technology Professional; Engineer / Architect; Enterprise Team

Prerequisites

No prerequisite course is listed in the academy catalog.

Course details

• Course code: NE-AGI-101
• Level: Foundation
• Estimated duration: 8 h
• Delivery: Self-Paced