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Agent Fundamentals

Understand what AI agents actually are — from a single augmented LLM call to composable workflows. The conceptual foundation everything else builds on.

Module 1. What Agents Are

The augmented LLM, and when (and when not) to escalate to agentic systems

  1. 1What Is an Agent?
  2. 2When (and When Not) to Build Agents

Module 2. Workflow Patterns

Chaining, routing, parallelization, and orchestrator-workers

  1. 1Workflow Patterns: Chaining, Routing, Parallelization
  2. 2Orchestrator-Workers

Module 3. Designing Tools (ACI)

The agent-computer interface — the ceiling on every pattern above

  1. 1Designing Tools for Agents (ACI)