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4-Week AI Agents & Agentic Workflows Certification
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149 students

4-Week AI Agents & Agentic Workflows Certification

Build practical AI agents, RAG systems, tool workflows, and multi-agent automation from beginner to portfolio-ready.
Created bySchool of AI
Last updated 6/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand the difference between basic LLM prompting and real AI agent systems
  • Explain the core components of an AI agent, including input, reasoning, action, observation, and output
  • Build a working single-agent system using the Think → Act → Observe agent loop
  • Connect AI agents to tools, APIs, functions, and external systems to complete real tasks
  • Use memory to create stateful agents that can store and reuse information across interactions
  • Understand embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation at a practical level
  • Build a RAG-powered agent that can retrieve external knowledge and generate more accurate responses
  • Design and build multi-agent workflows using roles such as Planner, Executor, Reviewer, and Manager
  • Understand how agents communicate, coordinate tasks, and pass context through a workflow
  • Add basic guardrails, validation, logging, debugging, and reliability checks to agent systems
  • Complete a portfolio-ready capstone project that combines tools, memory, RAG, and agentic workflows

Course content

4 sections25 lectures7h 15m total length
  • Certificate of Completion0:27
  • Day 1 — What Are AI Agents? From Prompts to Systems14:22
  • Day 2 — Anatomy of an AI Agent14:32
  • Day 3 — The Agent Loop: Think → Act → Observe13:56
  • Day 4 — Tools: Giving Agents Superpowers20:14
  • Day 5 — Designing Simple Single-Agent Systems18:48
  • Week 1 Lab — Build Your First AI Agent8:52

Requirements

  • No prior experience with AI agents or agentic workflows is required
  • Basic familiarity with using a computer and browsing the internet is helpful
  • Beginner-level understanding of AI tools like ChatGPT is useful, but not required
  • Basic Python knowledge is helpful for hands-on labs, but the course explains concepts step by step
  • No advanced machine learning, data science, or deep learning background is required
  • No prior experience with RAG, vector databases, embeddings, or multi-agent systems is needed
  • A laptop or desktop computer with internet access is recommended
  • Willingness to follow hands-on exercises and build practical AI projects
  • Curiosity about how modern AI agents, tools, memory, and automation workflows work
  • This course is designed to lower the barrier for beginners while still helping learners build portfolio-ready AI agent systems

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

The 4-Week AI Agents & Agentic Workflows Certification is a hands-on, practical program designed to help you move beyond basic prompting and learn how to build real AI agent systems that can reason, take action, use tools, remember information, retrieve knowledge, and coordinate with other agents.

Most people use AI by typing prompts into a chatbot. But modern AI development is quickly moving toward agentic systems — AI-powered workflows that can break down tasks, make decisions, call external tools, use APIs, search knowledge bases, and complete multi-step processes. This course teaches you how those systems work and how to design them from the ground up.

In Week 1, you will begin with the fundamentals of AI agents. You will learn the difference between simple LLM usage and a true agent system. You will explore the core anatomy of an agent, including input, reasoning, action, and output. You will also learn the popular Think → Act → Observe loop and understand how the ReAct pattern helps agents work through tasks step by step. By the end of the week, you will design and build your first working single-agent system.

In Week 2, you will expand your agent with tools, memory, and RAG. You will learn why memory matters, how stateless agents differ from stateful agents, and how short-term and long-term memory improve agent behavior. You will also understand the basics of embeddings, vector databases, and vector search. Then you will learn how Retrieval-Augmented Generation helps agents produce more accurate, grounded, and context-aware responses. The weekly lab guides you through building a working RAG agent that can use external knowledge.

In Week 3, you will move into multi-agent systems. You will learn when one agent is not enough and how multiple agents can work together through specialized roles such as Planner, Executor, Reviewer, and Manager–Worker patterns. You will explore agent communication, workflow coordination, orchestration tools like LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen, and how to design systems that pass context between agents reliably. The weekly lab focuses on building a coordinated multi-agent workflow.

In Week 4, you will bring everything together in a portfolio-ready capstone project. You will plan your architecture, build the core agent system, integrate tools, add memory, apply guardrails, validate outputs, and improve reliability. You will also learn the basics of observability, testing, debugging, performance optimization, and production thinking.

By the end of this certification, you will have built practical agent systems and gained a clear understanding of how to design agentic workflows for real-world use cases across business, productivity, automation, research, operations, and enterprise AI.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners who want to understand AI agents beyond basic prompting
  • Professionals who want to learn how agentic workflows are designed and used in real-world systems
  • Developers who want to build practical single-agent, RAG, and multi-agent systems
  • AI enthusiasts who want hands-on experience with tools, memory, retrieval, and automation
  • Business and technology professionals who want to understand how AI agents can improve productivity and workflows
  • Students and career changers who want to build portfolio-ready AI projects in the growing field of agentic AI
  • Product managers, analysts, consultants, and team leads who want to understand how AI agents can support business processes
  • Anyone interested in learning how modern AI systems can reason, act, use tools, retrieve knowledge, and coordinate tasks
  • Learners who want a structured, beginner-friendly path from AI agent fundamentals to a final capstone project