Stanford launches CS329Z, a new course on engineering AI agents from scratch

Diyi_Yang · x · 2026-09-03

Stanford's Diyi Yang, Michael Ryan and John Yang are teaching CS329Z "Engineering AI Agents" this fall, covering the full stack of agent building: training data, RAG, agent design patterns/harnesses, and evals.

Hands-on assignments include building an agentic harness from scratch (Hw1) and creating novel evals that challenge frontier models (Hw2), capped by a custom agentic application project. The course site will be updated with lectures and assignments.

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