AI Agents for Beginners - A Course

10 Lessons teaching everything you need to know to start building AI Agents

Language Support

🌱 Getting Started

This course has 10 lessons covering the fundamentals of building AI Agents. Each lesson covers its own topic so start wherever you like!

There is multi-language support for this course. Go to our available languages here.

If this is your first time building with Generative AI models, check out our Generative AI For Beginners course, which includes 21 lessons on building with GenAI.

Don't forget to star (🌟) this repo and fork this repo to run the code.

What You Need

Each lesson in this course includes code examples, which can be found in the code_samples folder. You can fork this repo to create your own copy.

The code example in these exercises, utilize Azure AI Foundry and GitHub Model Catalogs for interacting with Language Models:

Github Models - Free / Limited
Azure AI Foundry - Azure Account Required

This course also uses the following AI Agent frameworks and services from Microsoft:

For more information on running the code for this course, go to the Course Setup.

🙏 Want to help?

Do you have suggestions or found spelling or code errors? Raise an issue or Create a pull request

If you get stuck or have any questions about building AI Agents, join our Azure AI Community Discord.

📂 Each lesson includes

A written lesson located in the README and a short video
Python code samples supporting Azure AI Foundry and Github Models (Free)
Links to extra resources to continue your learning

🗃️ Lessons

Lesson	Text & Code	Video	Extra Learning
Intro to AI Agents and Agent Use Cases	Link	Video	Link
Exploring AI Agentic Frameworks	Link	Video	Link
Understanding AI Agentic Design Patterns	Link	Video	Link
Tool Use Design Pattern	Link	Video	Link
Agentic RAG	Link	Video	Link
Building Trustworthy AI Agents	Link	Video	Link
Planning Design Pattern	Link	Video	Link
Multi-Agent Design Pattern	Link	Video	Link
Metacognition Design Pattern	Link	Video	Link
AI Agents in Production	Link	Video	Link

🌐 Multi-Language Support

Language	Code	Link to Translated README	Last Updated
Chinese (Simplified)	zh	Chinese Translation	2025-03-24
Chinese (Traditional)	tw	Chinese Translation	2025-03-28
Chinese (Hong Kong)	hk	Chinese (Hong Kong) Translation	2025-03-28
French	fr	French Translation	2025-03-28
Japanese	ja	Japanese Translation	2025-03-28
Korean	ko	Korean Translation	2025-03-28
Portuguese	pt	Portuguese Translation	2025-03-28
Spanish	es	Spanish Translation	2025-03-28
German	de	German Translation	2025-03-28
Persian	fa	Persian Translation	2025-03-28
Polish	pl	Polish Translation	2025-03-28
Hindi	hi	Hindi Translation	2025-04-05

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🌟 Community Thanks

Thanks to Shivam Goyal for contributing important code samples demonstrating Agentic RAG.

Contributing

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When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

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