AI Agents Academy — Interactive beginner-to-expert AI agents curriculum: architectures and orchestration, MCP and agent protocols, AWS AgentCore, Microsoft Foundry, Vertex AI, security and guardrails, evals, and AgentOps.
An interactive, beginner-to-expert curriculum: 55 modules across 7 domains, 15 hands-on tools and simulators, a 267-term glossary.
Domains
- Agent Foundations — What an agent actually is, how the loop works, and when not to build one (8 modules)
- Architectures & Orchestration — Single agents, multi-agent systems, planning patterns, and the human in the loop (11 modules)
- Protocols & Interoperability — Tool calling, structured outputs, MCP, and how agents talk to each other (7 modules)
- Building on the Clouds — AWS AgentCore, Microsoft Foundry, and Vertex AI — deploy, secure, and pay for agents (8 modules)
- Security & Guardrails — Prompt injection, least privilege, sandboxing, and the guardrail catalog (7 modules)
- Evaluation & Observability — Traces, evals, LLM judges, and knowing whether your agent actually works (6 modules)
- AgentOps & Production — Versioning, rollout, incidents, isolation — running agents for real (8 modules)
Highlights
- The learning path — a guided route through every module, beginner to expert.
- Tools & simulators — 13 interactive tools.
- The Exam Hall — practice drills and mock exams, every answer explained.
- Field Notes — practitioner patterns and case studies.
- Glossary — 267 terms with primary sources.
- The Gallery — Complete worked agent designs, each shipping its real prompts and controls.
- Prompt Library — Copyable, working prompts for agent systems — with when-to-use and variables.
- Changelog — What changed, quarter by quarter — dated, cited, and explained.