Microsoft's Free AI Agent Course: 18 Lessons from Basics to Production
mdancho84 · x · 2026-08-08
Microsoft has released a free open-source course ai-agents-for-beginners on GitHub, which has earned over 71.6k stars.
The curriculum consists of 18 lessons covering everything from AI agent fundamentals, framework exploration, and design patterns to tool use, multi-agent collaboration, context engineering, and memory. It concludes with production deployment and security, helping developers systematically master the full stack of building AI agents.
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