https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners
10 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents
https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners
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10 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners
- Owner: microsoft
- License: mit
- Created: 2024-11-28T10:42:52.000Z (5 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-11T07:13:10.000Z (9 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-13T14:56:55.819Z (7 days ago)
- Topics: agentic-ai, agentic-framework, agentic-rag, ai-agents, ai-agents-framework, autogen, generative-ai, semantic-kernel
- Language: Jupyter Notebook
- Homepage: https://microsoft.github.io/ai-agents-for-beginners/
- Size: 556 MB
- Stars: 13,495
- Watchers: 153
- Forks: 3,301
- Open Issues: 10
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Security: SECURITY.md
- Support: SUPPORT.md
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README
# AI Agents for Beginners - A Course
## 10 Lessons teaching everything you need to know to start building AI Agents
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### Language Support
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## 🌱 Getting Started
This course has 10 lessons covering the fundamentals of building AI Agents. Each lesson covers its own topic so start wherever you like!
There is multi-language support for this course. Go to our [available languages here](#-multi-language-support).
If this is your first time building with Generative AI models, check out our [Generative AI For Beginners](https://aka.ms/genai-beginners) course, which includes 21 lessons on building with GenAI.
Don't forget to [star (🌟) this repo](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on-github/saving-repositories-with-stars?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) and [fork this repo](https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners/fork) to run the code.
### What You Need
Each lesson in this course includes code examples, which can be found in the code_samples folder. You can [fork this repo](https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners/fork) to create your own copy.
The code example in these exercises, utilize Azure AI Foundry and GitHub Model Catalogs for interacting with Language Models:
- [Github Models](https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginners/github-models) - Free / Limited
- [Azure AI Foundry](https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginners/ai-foundry) - Azure Account Required
This course also uses the following AI Agent frameworks and services from Microsoft:
- [Azure AI Agent Service](https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginners/ai-agent-service)
- [Semantic Kernel](https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginners/semantic-kernel)
- [AutoGen](https://aka.ms/ai-agents/autogen)
For more information on running the code for this course, go to the [Course Setup](./00-course-setup/README.md).
## 🙏 Want to help?
Do you have suggestions or found spelling or code errors? [Raise an issue](https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners/issues?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst) or [Create a pull request](https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners/pulls?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
If you get stuck or have any questions about building AI Agents, join our [Azure AI Community Discord](https://discord.gg/kzRShWzttr).
## 📂 Each lesson includes
- A written lesson located in the README (Videos Coming March 2025)
- Python code samples supporting Azure AI Foundry and Github Models (Free)
- Links to extra resources to continue your learning
## 🗃️ Lessons
| **Lesson** | **Link** |
|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
| Intro to AI Agents and Use Cases | [Link](./01-intro-to-ai-agents/README.md) |
| Exploring Agentic Frameworks | [Link](./02-explore-agentic-frameworks/README.md) |
| Understanding Agentic Design Patterns | [Link](./03-agentic-design-patterns/README.md) |
| Tool Use Design Pattern | [Link](./04-tool-use/README.md) |
| Agentic RAG | [Link](./05-agentic-rag/README.md) |
| Building Trustworthy AI Agents | [Link](./06-building-trustworthy-agents/README.md) |
| Planning Design Pattern | [Link](./07-planning-design/README.md) |
| Multi-Agent Design Pattern | [Link](./08-multi-agent/README.md) |
| Metacognition Design Pattern | [Link](./09-metacognition/README.md) |
| AI Agents in Production | [Link](./10-ai-agents-production/README.md) |
## 🌐 Multi-Language Support
| Language | Code | Link to Translated README | Last Updated |
|----------------------|------|---------------------------------------------------------|--------------|
| Chinese (Simplified) | zh | [Chinese Translation](./translations/zh/README.md) | 2025-02-13 |
| Chinese (Traditional)| tw | [Chinese Translation](./translations/tw/README.md) | 2025-02-13 |
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | hk | [Chinese (Hong Kong) Translation](./translations/hk/README.md) | 2025-02-13 |
| French | fr | [French Translation](./translations/fr/README.md) | 2025-02-13 |
| Japanese | ja | [Japanese Translation](./translations/ja/README.md) | 2025-02-13 |
| Korean | ko | [Korean Translation](./translations/ko/README.md) | 2025-02-13 |
| Portuguese | pt | [Portuguese Translation](./translations/pt/README.md) | 2025-02-13 |
| Spanish | es | [Spanish Translation](./translations/es/README.md) | 2025-02-13 |
| German | de | [German Translation](./translations/de/README.md) | 2025-02-13 |
## 🎒 Other Courses
Our team produces other courses! Check out:
- [**NEW** Generative AI for Beginners using .NET](https://github.com/microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
- [Generative AI for Beginners](https://github.com/microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
- [ML for Beginners](https://aka.ms/ml-beginners?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
- [Data Science for Beginners](https://aka.ms/datascience-beginners?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
- [AI for Beginners](https://aka.ms/ai-beginners?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
- [Cybersecurity for Beginners](https://github.com/microsoft/Security-101??WT.mc_id=academic-96948-sayoung)
- [Web Dev for Beginners](https://aka.ms/webdev-beginners?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
- [IoT for Beginners](https://aka.ms/iot-beginners?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
- [XR Development for Beginners](https://github.com/microsoft/xr-development-for-beginners?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
- [Mastering GitHub Copilot for AI Paired Programming](https://aka.ms/GitHubCopilotAI?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
- [Mastering GitHub Copilot for C#/.NET Developers](https://github.com/microsoft/mastering-github-copilot-for-dotnet-csharp-developers?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
- [Choose Your Own Copilot Adventure](https://github.com/microsoft/CopilotAdventures?WT.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst)
## 🌟 Community Thanks
Thanks to [Shivam Goyal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivam2003/) for contributing important code samples demonstrating Agentic RAG.
## Contributing
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