A topic of the Building AI Agents course. Planned for 1.5 hours at Easy difficulty.

What Makes a System an Agent

A topic of the Building AI Agents course. Planned for 2 hours at Medium difficulty.

The Perception, Reasoning and Action Loop

Agent Architectures: Reactive, Deliberative, Hybrid

Choosing a Model for an Agent

For agents, the deciding capability is rarely raw knowledge; it is whether the model reliably respects tool schemas, stop conditions and formatting contracts across dozens of turns. A model that drifts from its contract at turn fifteen cannot be deployed unsupervised.

Instruction Following as the Binding Constraint

A category of the Building AI Agents course, covering 4 topics.

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