Building Your First AI Agent with LangChain

This program introduces you to Building Simple Agents with LangChain, designed for developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to create intelligent agents powered by LangChain. You’ll begin by mastering the foundational concepts of Agentic AI and the LangChain ecosystem, including understanding its architecture, key components, and capabilities. Next, you’ll dive into LLM development, focusing on prompting, context engineering, and persona design. You’ll learn to create effective prompts, engineer context to guide model behavior, and design powerful, multi-step workflows using LangChain Expression Language (LCEL). Through hands-on demonstrations, you'll build and optimize intelligent agent systems that can interact with various data sources and tools. As you progress, you’ll explore practical agent development with create_agent, and understand how to enhance agents with memory and external tools. You’ll also learn to produce structured outputs with Pydantic and TypedDict, ensuring that your agents can handle complex tasks with precision. By the end of the program, you will be able to: - Define the core principles of Agentic AI and the LangChain ecosystem. - Apply LangChain’s create_agent framework to build and customize intelligent agents. - Analyze prompt engineering and context engineering techniques to influence model behavior. - Design multi-step workflows and error-resilient pipelines using LangChain Expression Language. - Integrate external tools and synthesize structured outputs for solving complex tasks. - Optimize agents to handle real-world applications, from querying data to generating actionable insights. This program is ideal for developers, AI enthusiasts, and technical professionals looking to dive into the world of intelligent agent development. Prior experience with Python programming and basic AI concepts will help maximize your learning experience. Learners need a reliable internet connection, a modern web browser, and access to Python tools. The course uses AI tools like LangChain and Gemini API, which don't require specialized hardware. Basic knowledge of Python and AI concepts is recommended. Join us and learn to build powerful, responsive agents that can automate tasks, optimize workflows, and unlock new capabilities in AI-driven applications

• Define core principles of Agentic AI and LangChain ecosystem including architecture and components
• Apply LangChain frameworks to build intelligent AI agents
• Analyze prompt engineering and context design to optimize agent behavior
• Design multi-step agent workflows integrating external tools

• Basic computer and internet skills
• Ability to read course instructions in English and complete exercises