AI agents are the next step beyond chatbots, capable of reasoning, planning, and acting in dynamic workflows. In this beginner-friendly course, tech educator Walter Shields walks you through the process of building your first AI agent using LangChain and Hugging Face. Start with simple, prompt-based interactions and progress to agents that can remember, adapt, and use external tools. Along the way, explore best practices for optimizing performance and adding guardrails for reliability. As you complete this course, you'll build a research assistant agent you can customize for your own projects.

Learning objectives

• Explain the difference between AI chatbots and AI agents.
  
• Build a functional AI agent using LangChain and Hugging Face.
  
• Design workflows that allow agents to complete multi-step tasks.
  
• Add memory and connect agents to external tools and APIs.
  
• Apply guardrails and best practices to optimize agent performance.
  

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