Learn AI Agents & Automation
A free, vendor-neutral, 14-module course that teaches how to design, build, govern, and evaluate AI agent systems that do real work inside real businesses — not how to write better prompts.
New to prompting AI?
Start with Prompt & Context Engineering
A free 12-module prerequisite course on communicating with and getting reliable results from AI systems — the HPC-10 framework, prompting technique, and context design. Finish it and this course reads like a continuation.
Principles before products
Models, frameworks, and vendor APIs change every few months. The architecture of an agent changes far more slowly.
Nobody is excluded
Every significant concept is explained three times — in plain English, for a practitioner, and for an architect.
Business outcome, not novelty
Every module ties back to a real decision a business has to make, not a demo trick.
The Holistic Agent Canvas
A 20-element framework (HAC-20) for designing an agent's objective, permissions, tools, memory, and governance before it's built.
The 14 modules
Certification path
Five levels, each defined by demonstrated competence, not hours attended.
Level 1
AI & Agent Foundations
Modules 1–3, plus Module 11
Level 2
Agent Practitioner
Modules 1–7, 9, 12
Level 3
Advanced Agent Builder
Modules 1–12
Level 4
Holistic Agent Architect
All 14 modules
Level 5
Governed Autonomy Specialist
All 14 modules + capstone