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The complete AI curriculum

24 lessons in 6 tracks — from what an LLM is to building agents, automating workflows, running private AI and selling AI services. Each lesson has clear objectives, step-by-step instructions, runnable code, a knowledge check and official links.

📚 24 lessons⏱ ~10 hours🧪 72 quiz questions💸 Free
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Start with Lesson 01 — What AI Really Is.

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TRACK 2 · 7 LESSONS · ~175 MIN

AI Agents

Tools, memory, RAG, your first agent, design patterns, MCP and agent harnesses like Hermes.

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What AI Agents Are

Agents are LLMs that take actions in a loop until a goal is met. Learn the agent loop, the six building blocks, and when you should — and shouldn't — use an agent.

Intermediate18 min
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Tools & Function Calling

How a model “uses” a tool: schemas, tool calls, results and the round trip. Write tool definitions models understand, and design tools that are safe.

Intermediate22 min
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Memory, Knowledge & RAG

Give AI your business knowledge. Learn embeddings, vector search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation — then build a working mini RAG system with a local model.

Intermediate28 min
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Build Your First Agent

A complete, runnable Python agent on a local model: real tools, a system prompt, step limits and a human-approval gate. Understand every line.

Intermediate35 min
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Agent Design Patterns & Multi-Agent Systems

Prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator-workers, evaluator-optimizer and multi-agent teams — when to use each, with business examples.

Advanced22 min
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MCP: Connecting Agents to Everything

The Model Context Protocol is the open standard for plugging tools and data into AI apps. Connect existing MCP servers, then build your own in about 20 lines of Python.

Advanced22 min
12

Agent Harnesses: Hermes, Claude Code & More

Stop writing agent loops from scratch. Install Hermes Agent, connect it to a local Ollama model, give it real work and reach it from Telegram — plus how to choose among other harnesses.

Advanced30 min