10 open-source GitHub repos with free courses for learning AI agents
victor_explore · x · 2026-10-28
A curated thread lists 10 open-source GitHub repos that double as free AI agent courses, covering tools/memory, MCP servers, production deployment, and building your own coding agent. Highlights: Datawhale's Hello-Agents (82k★), Microsoft's AI Agents for Beginners (77k★, 18 lessons), AI Engineering from Scratch (66k★), Hugging Face Agents Course (33k★), GenAI Agents (24k★, 50+ notebooks), Agents Towards Production (22k★), Learn Harness Engineering (19k★), Microsoft's MCP for Beginners (17k★), plus step-by-step guides for building a coding agent and a framework-free local agent.
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