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Free AI Agents tutorials, examples and coding practice for Indian students. Beginner to advanced, with an in-browser editor and AI feedback — no cost.

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Free AI Agents course: 40 lessons, from the basics through to the advanced topics interviewers actually ask about. Every lesson is free, needs no sign-up, and runs in your browser with an editor and instant AI feedback.

AI Agents Course Syllabus — 40 Lessons

Work through them in order, or jump to the topic you need. 40 lessons include worked explanations and runnable examples.

What are AI Agents

What is an AI Agent? — An AI agent is a software program that perceives its environment, reasons about it, and takes actions to achieve specific goals.
Agents vs Chatbots: Key Differences — Chatbots respond to user input based on patterns and predefined rules.
Types of AI Agents — There are five main types of AI agents, ranging from simple to complex.
Agent Environment: PEAS Model — PEAS stands for Performance, Environment, Actuators, and Sensors.
Agent Architecture Overview — Agent architecture describes how an agent's components are organized.
Rational Agents — A rational agent is one that acts to maximize expected utility given its knowledge, beliefs, and goals.
Agent vs Assistant: The Difference — An AI assistant (like ChatGPT) is a tool that responds to user queries with helpful information or actions.

Agent Components

Perception & Sensors in Agents — Sensors are how agents perceive the world.
Actions & Actuators — Actuators are the agent's tools for interacting with the world.
Memory Types in Agents — Agents use multiple types of memory: short-term (working memory, current context), long-term (stored knowledge, learning), and episodic (past events).
Planning in Agents — Planning is how agents decompose goals into action sequences.
Tools and Functions in Agents — Tools are external capabilities agents can invoke.
Function Calling in AI Agents — Function calling is how LLM-based agents invoke external functions.
Memory Retrieval in Agents — Memory retrieval is how agents access relevant past information to inform current decisions.
Agent Loops: Perceive-Reason-Act — The agent loop is the core execution cycle: Perceive (read sensors) → Reason (process observations, decide) → Act (execute actions) → Repeat.

Building Simple Agents

Hello World Agent in Python — Your first agent! A minimal agent that perceives a simple input, reasons about it, and produces output.
Tool-Using Agent — A tool-using agent is one that calls external functions or APIs to accomplish tasks.
Web Search Agent — A web search agent autonomously queries the internet for information.
File Reader Agent — A file reader agent reads documents and answers questions about their content.
Calculator Agent — A calculator agent solves math problems. It parses expressions, handles operator precedence, returns results.
Email Agent Concept — An email agent autonomously processes emails: reads, categorizes, responds, or alerts.
Research Agent Concept — A research agent explores a topic autonomously: searches for sources, reads content, synthesizes information, identifies gaps, and produces a report.
Multi-Step Task Agent — A multi-step task agent decomposes complex goals into sequential steps, manages state across steps, and handles failures.

Multi-Agent Systems

What is a Multi-Agent System? — A multi-agent system (MAS) is a group of autonomous agents interacting to solve problems too complex for one agent.
Agent Communication — Agents communicate via messages. Message types: requests (asking for help), responses (providing answers), updates (sharing new info), commands (directing action).
Agent Coordination Strategies — Coordination prevents conflicts when agents work together.
LangChain Agents Introduction — LangChain is a framework for building agent applications using LLMs.
AutoGPT Concept — AutoGPT (Auto-Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an AI agent that sets goals, breaks them into tasks, executes tasks autonomously, and reflects on progress.
CrewAI Concept — CrewAI is a framework for orchestrating multiple AI agents to work as a team ("crew") on complex tasks.
Agent Orchestration — Agent orchestration is managing multiple agents: starting them, routing tasks, monitoring health, handling failures.

Real-world Applications

AI Agents in Indian Industry — Indian businesses use AI agents for: customer support (reducing wait times), inventory management (optimizing stock), fraud detection (protecting transactions), recruitment (screening resumes), content moderation.
Agents for Education — Educational agents personalize learning: adapting difficulty, suggesting resources, tracking progress, identifying gaps, recommending peers for collaboration.
Customer Service Agents — Customer service agents handle inquiries: answering FAQs, processing requests, troubleshooting, escalating to humans.
Code Generation Agents — Code generation agents write code based on requirements.
Future of AI Agents — Future agents will be: more autonomous (minimal human oversight), more specialized (deep domain expertise), more collaborative (working with other agents and humans), more ethical (transparent decision-making, fairness).

Agent Safety & Ethics

The Alignment Problem — The alignment problem: How do we ensure AI agents pursue goals we intend, not unintended consequences?
Agent Failures and Risks — Agent failures: wrong decisions (recommending wrong course), biased behavior (favoring certain students), security breaches (data leaks), unexpected behavior (hallucinating facts), cascading failures (one agent's error propagates).
Human-in-the-Loop Agents — Human-in-the-loop (HITL) means humans review and approve critical agent decisions.
Guardrails & Safety Systems — Guardrails are constraints preventing agents from harmful behavior.
Responsible AI Agents — Responsible AI means: transparent (explain decisions), accountable (humans responsible for outcomes), fair (equal treatment), private (protect data), safe (prevent harm).

Who this AI Agents course is for

School and college students in India starting from zero, and anyone revising AI Agents for placements, board practicals or a project. There is no prerequisite beyond being able to type — the first lessons assume no programming background at all.

How to study this course

Read the lesson, then run the example in the built-in editor before moving on — reading code is not the same as writing it.
Try the practice task at the end of each lesson. Getting it wrong and fixing it is where the learning happens.
When you are stuck, ask the free AI Tutor to explain that specific line rather than skipping ahead.

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