Course
Fundamentals of AI Agents
Build intelligent, autonomous agents from the ground up.
Duration
8 hours
Format
Self-paced
Instructor
Agent Commons
What this course helps you do
A comprehensive introduction to AI agents — what they are, how they work, and how to build them. Covers the full stack: LLMs, tools, MCP, agent frameworks, security, and the emerging agentic economy.
Work through the course in a focused sequence, then turn the lessons into a concrete result you can keep using.
AI agents are the next computing paradigm. They are systems that perceive context, reason with language models, use tools, and take actions to accomplish goals — autonomously. This course gives you the mental models, technical foundations, and hands-on skills to build, deploy, and reason about agents. You will understand how leading agent frameworks work, how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardises tool access across models and platforms, how multi-agent workflows are composed, and what the emerging agentic commerce layer looks like. Grounded in real patterns from Agent Commons — a production agentic infrastructure platform — this is not a theoretical survey. Every concept connects to code you can run.