ai-agents-for-beginners

AI Agents for Beginners - A Course

AI Agents for Beginners

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

🌐 Multi-Language Support

We dey support am through GitHub Action (Automatic & Always Up-to-Date)

You prefer to Clone am for your computer?

Dis repository get over 50 language translations wey go make the download size big well-well. If you wan clone without the translations, use sparse checkout:

Bash / macOS / Linux:
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'
CMD (Windows):
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 one go give you everything wey you need to complete the course quick-fast.

If you want make we add more translation languages, dem list dey here

🌱 How to Start

Dis course get lessons wey dey cover the basics of building AI Agents. Each lesson dey cover im own topic so you fit start anywhere wey you like!

We get multi-language support for dis course. Check our available languages here.

If na your first time to dey build with Generative AI models, check our Generative AI For Beginners course, wey get 21 lessons on how to build with GenAI.

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

Meet Other Learners, Get Your Questions Answered

If you jam wahala or get any question about building AI Agents, join our special Discord Channel for Microsoft Foundry Discord.

Wetin You Need

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

The code examples for these exercises dey use Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure AI Foundry Agent Service V2:

Microsoft Foundry - You must get Azure Account

Dis course dey use the following AI Agent frameworks and services from Microsoft:

Some code samples also fit use other OpenAI-compatible providers like MiniMax, wey get large-context models (reach 204K tokens). Check the Course Setup to see the details of how to configure am.

For more info on how to run the code for dis course, visit the Course Setup.

🙏 You Wan Help?

You get suggestions or you see spelling or code mistakes? Raise an issue or Create a pull request

📂 Every lesson get

Written lesson wey dey for the README and short video
Python code examples wey use Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure AI Foundry
Links to extra resources 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)	Link		Link
Deploying Scalable Agents	Coming Soon
Creating Local AI Agents	Coming Soon
Securing AI Agents	Coming Soon

🎒 Odas Kɔs

Our tɛm de produce oda kɔs! Make una check am:

LangChain

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Azure / Edge / MCP / Agents

Generative AI Series

Core Learning

Copilot Series

🌟 Community Thanks

Tanks to Shivam Goyal for di beta contribution wey show how Agentic RAG dey work.

Contributing

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

When you submit pull request, CLA bot go automatically check if you need to provide CLA and go add di correct tags for di PR (for example, status check, comment). Just follow di instructions wey di bot give. You need to do dis only once for all repos wey dey use our CLA.

Dis projek don adopt di Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see di Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com if you get any oda questions or comments.

Trademarks

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Getting Help

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

Disclaimer:
Dis document don translate with AI translation service Co-op Translator. Even tho we dey try make am correct, abeg make you sabi say automated translations fit get error or no too correct. The original document for e own language na the correct source. For any important information, make person wey sabi translate human translation. We no go responsible if person no understand well or take am anyhow because of this translation.

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