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Fundamentals of AI Agents

Build intelligent, autonomous agents from the ground up.

8 hours28 lessons6 modulesBy Agent Commons
AI AgentsLLMsMCPLangGraphSecurityAgentic Commerce

About this course

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.

How the lab fits in

CommonLab courses are designed to pair lessons with safe agent practice: prompts, tool calls, workflows, logs, and review checkpoints before learners move into real integrations.

What you will learn

What Are AI Agents?
Core Building Blocks
Setting Up Your First AI Agent
Agent Frameworks
Security and Trust
Agentic Ecosystems and Commerce
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Course outline

6 modules·28 lessons·~619 min total

Introduction to Agentic AI

Preview18 min

How Agents Think and Act

Preview22 min

The Agentic Landscape in 2026

20 min

Agents vs Chatbots vs Pipelines

15 min