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AI Agents & Autonomous Systems: Build systems that can plan, act, use tools, and complete multi-step tasks

Learn how AI agents work, what autonomous systems can and cannot do, how to design agent workflows, connect tools, define guardrails, evaluate behavior, and build systems that do more than politely generate text.

Agents · Tools · Actions · Planning · Workflows · Guardrails · Evaluation · Autonomous systems

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12 Agent guides
Plan Map agent behavior
Act Connect tools
Test Evaluate reliability

What you’ll learn

Agents are where AI starts doing chores. Naturally, that is where things get interesting.

This section breaks down how to build AI agents and autonomous systems: goals, memory, tools, actions, task planning, orchestration, permissions, fallback behavior, monitoring, human approval, and the guardrails needed before your agent enthusiastically automates the wrong thing at scale.

Agent basics

Understand what AI agents are, how they differ from chatbots, and what makes them useful for multi-step work.

Agent workflows

Design systems that can break work into steps, use tools, call APIs, retrieve information, and produce useful outputs.

Guardrails and safety

Learn how to set permissions, approval checkpoints, failure handling, privacy boundaries, and human review.

Testing and reliability

Evaluate agent performance, monitor outputs, test edge cases, and improve workflows before scaling them.

AI Agents & Autonomous Systems Articles

Build agents that do more than cosplay productivity.

Practical guides for understanding, designing, building, testing, and improving AI agents and autonomous workflows.

Agent Builder Notes

Build agents with fewer expensive surprises.

Practical notes on agent design, workflows, tools, APIs, guardrails, testing, autonomous behavior, and useful AI systems.

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