Learning path · Intermediate · 10h
Build your first production agent
From a single tool call to a budgeted, evaluated, approval-gated agent that can be left running.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Any assistant
- agents
- learning-path
Inside this learning path
- Design, build, evaluate and operate a tool-using agent with side effects gated by a person.
- Skills: Defining tools with schemas and failure returns, Writing a system prompt as a contract, Enforcing budgets in code, Building an evaluation set, Gating side effects
- Time
- 10h
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- 01Module 1: Tools and the loop
Module · 1h 15m · The mechanics of tool calling and the loop that makes an agent, built by hand once so the frameworks make sense.
- 02Module 2: Making it safe to run
Module · 1h 15m · The system prompt as a contract, an evaluation set with refuse cases, and approval gates for side effects.

