Build Production AI Agents
Build real AI agents the way Stripe, Uber, Meta and Cloudflare do — the model is the easy part, the harness is what makes it work.
How do Stripe, Uber, Meta, Cloudflare and DoorDash actually run AI agents in production? Not with one clever model — with sets of purpose-built agents, each wrapped in a harness of loops, guardrails, and verification.
This hands-on course turns the published architectures and real metrics from those teams into something you can build. You will learn the anatomy of an agent, the five patterns every setup is made of, and the six rules that keep them reliable — then build real setups step by step.
One honest rule runs through every lesson: the model is the easy part; the harness around it is what makes it work — read-only by default, a human approves anything risky, and a separate checker grades the work.
This course covers the foundations plus all ten setups: background coding, code review, migration, on-call/SRE, security, data analyst, customer support, research, knowledge, and scheduled automation.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what an AI agent is: model, tools, instructions, and the harness around them
- Recognize the five patterns and six rules behind every production agent
- Build a background coding agent, a code review agent, and a migration agent
- Keep agents safe: read-only by default, a separate checker, a human on every risky action
Curriculum
Module 1: Foundations
FreeThe honest mental model of an AI agent: model plus tools plus instructions in a loop, where the harness — not the model — is what makes it reliable.
Module 2: Background Coding Agents
PremiumHow agents turn a ticket or Slack message into a finished pull request that a human still reviews and merges.
- What a Background Coding Agent Does9 min
- How a Background Coding Agent Is Built11 min
- Real Setups: Stripe, Spotify, Shopify10 min
- Build Your Own: Issue to PR with claude-code-action13 min
Module 3: Code Review Agents
PremiumHow review agents read every PR before a human, surface only comments worth reading, and leave the final call to people.
- What a Code Review Agent Does9 min
- How a Code Review Agent Is Built11 min
- Real Setups: Cloudflare, DoorDash, Uber10 min
- Build Your Own: Run a Review Agent on a Real PR13 min
Module 4: Migration Agents
PremiumHow to build agents that apply one boring change across thousands of files by letting fixed test gates decide when each item is done.
- What a Migration Agent Actually Does9 min
- How a Migration Agent Is Built11 min
- Three Real Setups: Airbnb, Google, DoorDash10 min
- Build Your Own Migration Agent12 min
Module 5: On-Call & SRE Agents
PremiumHow to build an on-call agent that investigates the moment an alert fires, cites evidence for every conclusion, and leaves every fix to a human.
- What an On-Call Agent Actually Does9 min
- How an On-Call Agent Is Built12 min
- Three Real Setups: Azure, Ramp, Meta10 min
- Build Your Own On-Call Agent13 min
Module 6: Security Agents
PremiumBuild agents that triage security alerts and hunt vulnerabilities on real evidence, cite every claim in code, and draft fixes for humans to approve instead of shipping on their own.
- What a Security Agent Actually Does9 min
- How a Security Agent Is Built12 min
- Real Setups: Cloudflare, Figma, Shopify11 min
- Build Your Own Security Agent13 min
Module 7: Data Analyst Agents
PremiumBuild an agent that answers plain-English data questions with the SQL behind them, where most of the real work is the knowledge layer and evals, not the model.
- What a Data Analyst Agent Actually Does9 min
- How a Data Analyst Agent Is Built12 min
- Real Setups: DoorDash, Notion, and OpenAI11 min
- Build Your Own with the Data Plugin13 min
Module 8: Customer Support Agents
PremiumHow production support agents route cheaply, resolve what they can with code and retrieval, guard and grade every answer, and hand the hard or risky cases to a human with context attached.
- What a Support Agent Actually Does9 min
- How a Support Agent Is Built12 min
- Real Setups: Lyft, DoorDash, Coinbase11 min
- Build Your Own13 min
Module 9: Research Agents
PremiumHow to build agents that take a broad question, search many sources in parallel, and return a report where every claim is backed by a citation.
- What a Research Agent Actually Does9 min
- How a Research Agent Is Built12 min
- Three Real Production Setups11 min
- Build Your Own With gpt-researcher14 min
Module 10: Knowledge Agents (Second Brain)
PremiumBuild a shared second brain: agents that capture what experts know, write it as short reviewed knowledge files, and keep those facts fresh so every agent and new hire gets a compass instead of a pile of docs.
- What a Knowledge Agent Actually Does9 min
- How a Knowledge Agent Is Built12 min
- Real Setups: Meta and Notion11 min
- Build Your Own with Lore13 min
Module 11: Scheduled Automation Agents
PremiumBuild agents that wake on a schedule, check your sources read-only, and report only what changed and what needs you.
- What a Scheduled Automation Agent Does9 min
- How a Scheduled Automation Agent Is Built12 min
- Real Setups in Production11 min
- Build Your Own Daily Brief13 min
Module 12: The Rules & Your First Agent
PremiumThe six rules every production agent setup shares, and how to choose, scope, and measure your own first agent.
- The Six Rules Every Production Setup Shares11 min
- Choose Your First Agent and Measure It12 min
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