Building Reliable AI Agents
Design, build, and ship AI agents you can actually trust in production — loops, tools, guardrails, and evaluation.
Anyone can wire an LLM to a few tools and call it an "agent." Making one that's reliable — that doesn't loop forever, burn money, or act on a hallucination — is the real engineering.
This hands-on course teaches agents the durable way: the agent loop and tool use, then the patterns, guardrails, evaluation, and observability that separate a demo from something you'd run in production. It's grounded in current (2026) practice — context engineering, compounding-error math, and honest limits — not hype.
What you'll be able to do
- Tell workflows from agents and choose the simplest thing that works
- Build an agent loop with tools, planning, and memory
- Add guardrails, human-in-the-loop, and stop conditions that prevent runaway behavior
- Evaluate, trace, and secure an agent for production
Curriculum
Module 1: Agent Foundations
FreeWhat an agent really is, the loop it runs on, and how to build your first one — with the hype stripped out.
Module 2: Designing Capable Agents
PremiumPlanning, memory, tools at scale, and the orchestration patterns that make agents actually capable.
- Planning and task decomposition15 min
- Memory and context engineering18 min
- Giving agents tools at scale (and MCP)15 min
- Orchestration patterns that actually work15 min
Module 3: Reliability & Control
PremiumThe failure modes that kill agents in production — and the guardrails, evals, and tracing that stop them.
- How agents fail (and the numbers that explain why)15 min
- Guardrails, stop conditions, and human-in-the-loop18 min
- Evaluating an agent18 min
- Observability: tracing agent runs15 min
Module 4: Agents in Production
PremiumSecurity, cost, deployment, and governance for agents that run in the real world.
- Security: prompt injection and agent permissions18 min
- Controlling cost and latency12 min
- Deployment patterns for agents15 min
- Governance: running agents in a regulated organization15 min
Get the full course — one-time $29.
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