One-Day Intensive
Intro to Agents: 1-Day Intensive
08.03.26 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT 6 hours in one focused day
Build your first autonomous agent from scratch in a single day - a condensed, hands-on version of our full 8-week Intro to Agents course.
with Liz Howard
Part of the Agent Engineering Stack: From Zero to Production in 3 Days track, 8 classes, take them in any order.
See the whole trackOverview
This intensive teaches you how to build autonomous agents from scratch in a single day. This is a condensed version of our full 8-week Intro to Agents course, covering essential patterns: the basic agent pattern (ReACT), request-response agents with production frameworks, RAG with vector databases, building your own agent framework, and multi-agent coordination. Perfect for developers who want hands-on experience with agent fundamentals before diving into the full course.
What You'll Master
- How to build agents using the ReACT pattern (Reason, Act, Observe)
- Request-response agents with Claude Agent SDK and OpenAI Agents SDK
- RAG implementation with FAISS and pgvector for retrieval
- Building your own minimal agent framework (~140 lines of code)
- Multi-agent coordination patterns (sequential, parallel, hierarchical)
- Framework comparison: Autogen, LangGraph, OpenAI Swarm
- When to use agents vs. simple prompts and common pitfalls
Who this is for & what you'll need
Solo coding
You should be able to write in some language on your own.
A few installs
You'll install a couple of tools, we'll help you in class.
Where This Class Leads
What you leave able to do
- construct a retrieval system
- construct an agent that uses tools
- govern a swarm by information hierarchy
- re architect an agent as a stateless reducer
- reconcile agents from different toolchains into one run
- select among agent architectures
- synthesise a self extending agent behind a review gate
How you show it. A diff the agent authored to its own prompt or toolset, the benchmark run that accepted it, and a logged rejection with the reason recorded.
It sits on 3 paths
Build production AI systems from prompt to deployment.6 of 12 after Claude Model Context Protocol · before Prompt Engineering Founder with an AI-first company.6 of 7 after Context Engineering · before AI Security: Governance, Standards and Safety Cases Build strange systems that change how people think.4 of 8 after The Interactive Fiction Intensive · before Automate Your Email: No Code AI AutomationAbout 67 hours of practice sit behind this one. See what your hours buy.
Join Us
One-Day Intensive
- 6-hour intensive hands-on workshop
- Build working autonomous agents
- Complete course materials and code examples
- Framework comparison (Autogen, LangGraph, Swarm)
- Agent design patterns and best practices
- Access to recordings
- Your seat in the class
- Lifetime access to materials
- Sponsors 1 scholarship seat for someone else
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Instructor
Want to schedule this class for your team?
Contact us: liz@themultiverse.school