UofAi

Applied-AI learning path

AI Agent Training

Understand, set up, evaluate, and oversee AI agents — the judgment to know when an agent earns your trust and when it doesn't. A practical, hype-free path for professionals: what agents really are, how to stand one up without code, where they break, and how to deploy them responsibly in real work.

Evaluate, configure, and oversee AI agents without surrendering judgment or operational control.

Duration

5 weeks

15 lessons · 5 labs

Artifact you ship

Evidence, not a completion badge

An agent operating playbook with tool scope, approval gates, failure tests, and deploy-or-hold criteria.

Program structure

What you build, week by week

Week 1

  • What Is an AI Agent? · Free
  • The Agent Loop: Observe → Reason → Act · Free
  • Tools, Memory & Context · Free

Week 2

  • One Agent or Many? · Free
  • The Agent Landscape: No-Code to Frameworks · Free
  • Configuring an Agent: Directive, Tools, Guardrails

Week 3

  • Giving Agents the Right Tools
  • The Economics of Running Agents
  • What Agents Can & Can't Reliably Do

Week 4

  • Why Agents Fail
  • Agent Security: The Lethal Trifecta
  • Designing Oversight: Human-in-the-Loop & Approval Gates

Week 5

  • Use Cases That Actually Deliver
  • Evaluating an Agent Before You Trust It
  • Your Agent Operating Playbook: Deploy vs Hold

Practice labs

  • Drive Your First Agent · Free
  • Agent Opportunity Map
  • Build a No-Code Agent
  • Red-Team Your Agent
  • Agent Operating Playbook (Capstone)

Prerequisites

  • Comfort using a general-purpose AI assistant
  • No coding experience required

Who this is not for

  • Developers seeking a framework API reference
  • Anyone expecting fully autonomous, risk-free agents

Pricing

Try the path before you subscribe.

Free includes Lessons 1–5, Lab 1, and one guided AI Rep. Pro is $29/month for the full path, unlimited Reps, and Spotter feedback.