ai-agents-for-beginners

AI Agents for Beginners - A Course

Generative AI For Beginners

A course wey dey teach everything wey you need sabi to start to build AI Agents

🌐 Multi-Language Support

Dem dey support am through GitHub Action (E dey automatic & e dey always up-to-date)

You prefer clone am for your local?

Dis repo get over 50 language translations wey dey increase di download size well well. To clone without di translations, use sparse checkout:
git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners.git
cd ai-agents-for-beginners
git sparse-checkout set --no-cone '/*' '!translations' '!translated_images'
Dis go give you everytin wey you need to complete di course quick quick.

If you want make dem add more translations, dem dey list dem here

🌱 How To Start

Dis course get lessons wey dey cover di basic tin dem about how to build AI Agents. Every lesson get e own topic so fit start for any way wey you like!

Dis course get multi-language support. Go check the one wey dey for our available languages here.

If na your first time to build with Generative AI models, try check our Generative AI For Beginners course wey get 21 lessons about building with GenAI.

No forget to star (🌟) dis repo and fork dis repo to run di code.

Meet Other Learners, Get Your Questions Answered

If you jam any gbege or get question about how to build AI Agents, join our special Discord Channel for the Microsoft Foundry Discord.

Wetin You Need

Each lesson for dis course get code examples, you fit find dem for the code_samples folder. You fit fork dis repo to get your own copy.

Di code example for these exercises dey use Azure AI Foundry and GitHub Model Catalogs to work with Language Models:

Github Models - Free / Limited
Azure AI Foundry - You need Azure Account

Dis course also dey use dis AI Agent frameworks and services from Microsoft:

For more information on how to run di code for dis course, go the Course Setup.

🙏 You wan help?

You get suggestion or don find spelling or code error? Raise an issue or Create a pull request

📂 Every lesson get

One written lesson wey dey for di README and short video
Python code examples wey support Azure AI Foundry and Github Models (Free)
Links go extra materials to continue your learning

🗃️ Lessons

Lesson	Text & Code	Video	Extra Learning
Intro to AI Agents and Agent Use Cases	Link	Video	Link
Exploring AI Agentic Frameworks	Link	Video	Link
Understanding AI Agentic Design Patterns	Link	Video	Link
Tool Use Design Pattern	Link	Video	Link
Agentic RAG	Link	Video	Link
Building Trustworthy AI Agents	Link	Video	Link
Planning Design Pattern	Link	Video	Link
Multi-Agent Design Pattern	Link	Video	Link
Metacognition Design Pattern	Link	Video	Link
AI Agents in Production	Link	Video	Link
Using Agentic Protocols (MCP, A2A and NLWeb)	Link	Video	Link
Context Engineering for AI Agents	Link	Video	Link
Managing Agentic Memory	Link	Video
Exploring Microsoft Agent Framework	Link
Building Computer Use Agents (CUA)	Coming Soon
Deploying Scalable Agents	Coming Soon
Creating Local AI Agents	Coming Soon
Securing AI Agents	Coming Soon

🎒 Other Courses

Our team dey produce other courses! Check am out:

LangChain

Azure / Edge / MCP / Agents

Generative AI Series

Core Learning

Copilot Series

🌟 Community Thanks

Tanks to Shivam Goyal for di important code samples wey show Agentic RAG.

Contributing

Dis project dey welcome contributions and suggestions. Most contributions need make you agree to Contributor License Agreement (CLA) wey talk say you get di right, and you really do give us di rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

When you submit pull request, CLA bot go automatically sabi whether you need provide CLA and go put di correct decoration for di PR (like status check, comment). Just follow di instructions wey di bot give. You go only need to do dis one time for all di repos wey dey use our CLA.

Dis project don adopt di Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more info, see di Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com if you get any other questions or comments.

Trademarks

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Getting Help

If you jam problem or get any questions about building AI apps, join:

If you get product feedback or errors wen you dey build, visit:

Disclaimer: Dis document wey dem don translate with AI translation service Co-op Translator. Even though we dey try make am correct, abeg make you sabi say automated translation fit get some mistakes or no too clear. The original document wey e dey inside im own language na im be the correct one. If na serious matter, better make professional person do the translation. We no go accept any blame if person miss understand or take the meaning wrong because of this translation.

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