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Build & Launch AI Agents

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An implementation-oriented learning sequence for specifying, assembling and reviewing a small agent workflow. The written core focuses on contracts, tool results and failure handling so the learner can distinguish a useful local prototype from a workflow that is ready to receive real inputs and authority.

What you will learn

  • Write an input and output contract for a small workflow
  • Handle tool failures without inventing successful results
  • Prepare an operating checklist and test-backed launch decision

Your learning path

Module 1 is free to read · buy the course to unlock all 3
01 / Define a small interface contract

Choose one task and specify the fields it accepts, the fields it returns and the conditions it must reject or clarify. An output contract should make useful state visible: completed work, missing input, pending review and failed attempts should not all appear as an undifferentiated success message.

Use a stable job reference when the workflow may be retried or handed to another operator. Keep the approved instructions and configuration version available with the run record. This makes it possible to inspect what the workflow was asked to do without relying on the current contents of an editable prompt.

Practice: Design an input schema, an output schema and four status cases for one task. Explain how another operator would identify the same job after a retry.

Keep: A workflow interface contract and status vocabulary.

02 / Treat tool results as evidenceUnlocks after purchase
03 / Prepare a reviewable launch packUnlocks after purchase
CASE WORKSHOP / APPLY THE LESSON

Launch preparation when one dependency fails

Practice brief: An internal assistant is designed to transform an approved task request into a structured review packet. During a controlled exercise, one required tool returns incomplete information. The learner must specify the interface, preserve the actual failure, and prepare a launch decision that does not invent a successful result.

Work through the case

  1. Write required and optional input fields, an output schema, and explicit error states. Include examples showing how the interface distinguishes a missing value from an empty but valid value.
  2. Walk through a complete response, an unavailable dependency, and a malformed tool result. Record observable evidence and the allowed next action for each, keeping tool output separate from instructions.
  3. Create a launch packet with acceptance checks, access boundaries, recovery notes, and an owner decision. Explain which limitations block release and which can remain within a supervised, restricted operating scope.

Review your result

  • A failed dependency never appears as completed work. The packet states what was attempted, what evidence is available, and what remains unknown.
  • Recovery behavior is specific to the failure. Repeated execution is not used to compensate for invalid inputs or uncertainty about an external side effect.
  • The release recommendation is conditional and inspectable. It includes a responsible owner and does not imply that publishing the specification deploys the integration.
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