CMU Puts AI Agents Course 11-768 on YouTube Free: From Building Harnesses to RL Training
techNmak · x · 2026-09-29
CMU's new AI Agents course, 11-768, taught this fall by Graham Neubig and Daniel Fried, is now free on YouTube—and it's one of the first agent courses covering everything from building the harness to training the model behind it.
- Fundamentals: tool use, context management, skills, memory, and planning
- Specialized agents: coding agents, GUI agents, and deep-research agents
- Training: supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and RL systems
- Engineering: sandboxing, credential management, OpenHands, LangGraph, observability, multi-agent and human-agent interaction, search
The assignments build progressively: construct an agent harness, build evaluations for it, then train an agent with reinforcement learning.
Related event: CMU Launches Free AI Agents Course with 9 Lectures Online(2 posts)→
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