Google launches free 31-day Advent of Agents course on shipping production-ready AI agents
CodeByPoonam · x · 2026-10-01
Google launched Season 3 of Advent of Agents: a free 31-day program running daily through October, each day pairing a short practitioner video with runnable code around one real production question. Topics span the agent lifecycle and why agent security differs from chatbots, cryptographic agent identity with least-privilege tool access, runtime guardrails (prompt injection defense, PII leak prevention, sandboxing agent code, verifying third-party MCP servers), fleet management with Terraform/CI/CD and a unified agent registry, observability with threat detection and an enterprise kill switch, and day-2 operations like cost circuit breakers, model routing, and continuous evaluation.
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