Course · Multilingual · English, 简体中文 & more · BeginnerHugging Face AI Agents Course
A free practical introduction to LLM agents, tool use, smolagents, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, and Agentic RAG. Work through exercises and a final agent project. Includes English and Simplified Chinese editions; Python and basic LLM knowledge are expected. Model inference or local compute for exercises can have separate costs.
Open resource ↗Course · English · BeginnerOpenAI Academy: Agents and Workflows
A free self-paced introduction to delegating structured work to agents. Learn to provide context, define boundaries and checkpoints, and review results. Designed for people who already use AI at work. A ChatGPT account is required to start the course; product access for hands-on practice can depend on the learner's plan.
Open resource ↗Course · English · BeginnerAnthropic: Building Effective Human-Agent Teams (beta)
A free short course for team leads moving from individual AI use to shared human-agent work. Covers roles, shared objectives, delegation, and appropriate information access. No technical background is required. The course is marked beta; practical use of Claude products may require separate access.
Open resource ↗Article / Document · English · BeginnerAnthropic: Building Effective Agents
A public engineering primer on choosing between fixed workflows and autonomous agents. Explains routing, task decomposition, parallel work, iterative evaluation, and tool design. Useful before choosing a framework. The article dates from 2024; consult current documentation before copying API or tooling details.
Open resource ↗Course · English · BeginnerOpenAI: Building Agents Learning Track
A free official learning track covering agent components, tools, orchestration, guardrails, and implementation examples. Start with the concepts, then follow code and SDK references. Reading requires no account; running OpenAI API examples requires API access and may incur usage charges.
Open resource ↗Course · Multilingual · English, 简体中文 & more · BeginnerMicrosoft: AI Agents for Beginners
An official open-source course introducing agent concepts, tools, planning, memory, retrieval, multi-agent systems, and safety through lessons and code samples. Includes Simplified Chinese and other translations. Materials are free; current Microsoft Foundry examples can require an Azure account and billable services.
Open resource ↗Course · English · IntermediateAnthropic: Building with the Claude API
A free developer course spanning API fundamentals, prompting, tool calling, retrieval, MCP, and agent architectures. Includes exercises and quizzes. Intended for Python developers who can handle JSON. The teaching material is free; hands-on model calls need an Anthropic API key and can incur charges.
Open resource ↗Course · English · IntermediateAnthropic: Introduction to Model Context Protocol
A free focused course on connecting agents to external tools and data with MCP. Build Python servers and clients, then work with tools, resources, prompts, and the inspector. Python, async/await, and API familiarity are expected. Reading and local protocol exploration are free; model-backed integrations can incur API fees.
Open resource ↗Course · Multilingual · English, Tiếng Việt · IntermediateHugging Face and Anthropic: MCP Course
A free hands-on course on MCP concepts, SDKs, end-to-end applications, and custom workflow servers. Includes projects and an optional completion pathway. English and Vietnamese material is present in the official repository. Public reading is free; hosted exercises and model integrations may require accounts or paid inference.
Open resource ↗Course · English · IntermediateAnthropic: Introduction to Agent Skills
A free short course on creating reusable skills for Claude Code, configuring their instructions, testing when they activate, and sharing them with a team. Useful after learning basic agent tools. The lessons are public; following along in Claude Code can require separately paid product or API access.
Open resource ↗Article / Document · English · IntermediateAnthropic: Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents
A public engineering guide to managing the information an agent receives across long tasks. Covers context selection, tool interfaces, retrieval, compaction, and memory. Best after a basic agent tutorial. Reading is free; applying the techniques may involve paid model calls.
Open resource ↗Article / Document · English · IntermediateAnthropic: Demystifying Evals for AI Agents
A public guide to evaluating agents that act over multiple steps. Learn how to define tasks, trials, grading rules, traces, and outcomes, then combine evaluation methods and diagnose failures. Suited to developers who already have an agent prototype. Reading is free; running evaluations can incur model and infrastructure costs.
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