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AI Agents for Beginners
Short lessons on the design patterns behind AI agents: tool use, planning, agentic RAG, multi-agent systems, memory, protocols such as MCP, and taking agents to production.
14 video lessons · 2 h 7 min · taught by Microsoft Cloud Advocates
Lesson 1 of 14 · 6 min
What are AI agents?
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What you will learn
- Explain what makes a system an agent rather than a chatbot
- Apply the tool use, planning and multi-agent design patterns
- Manage an agent’s context and memory deliberately
- Connect agents to tools and each other with MCP and A2A
Before you start
- Prerequisites
- Generative AI for Beginners or equivalent. The code needs an Azure account.
- Cost
- Free and open source (MIT licence). Running the samples may incur cloud charges.
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