Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Agent components cheat sheet
The parts of an agent and the rule for each. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Tools
- Loop
- Contract
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Lab · Intermediate · 1h
Lab: Red-team your agent
Attack a support agent with adversarial inputs and confirm each is refused or handed over.
- Your support agent with an order-lookup tool is about to see real customers. Before it does, you try to make it misbehave.
Tasks 4ClaudeChatGPT
Project · Advanced · 10h
Project: A research agent with sources and a budget
Build a read-only agent that answers questions with cited findings, within a fixed budget, and passes an evaluation set.
- Build an agent with two tools — search and fetch — that answers a question with findings (each with URL and date), inferences (each with reasoning), and gaps. Enforce a budget of fifteen fetches and forty steps in code. Validate the report shape in code and reject uncited findings. Evaluate on twenty questions.
- Milestone 1: Tools and loop
- Milestone 2: Contract and validator
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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.
- 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 10hClaudeChatGPT

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Agent components cheat sheet

Lab: Red-team your agent

Project: A research agent with sources and a budget

Build your first production agent