AI agents courses and concepts
An AI agent is a system that pursues a goal by taking actions on its own — deciding what to do next, calling tools or other software, and adapting as it goes — rather than producing one answer and stopping. It is the difference between a tool you consult and one you delegate to. That independence is also what makes agents harder to build, and harder to trust, than a single prompt, which is why the subject has grown its own vocabulary and its own tooling. Learning it means picking up both.
The vocabulary of AI agents
Agent terminology is young and unevenly used, so course outlines tend to assume it rather than explain it. Each of these is a short definition — worth a click the first time an outline uses a word you would otherwise skim past.
Courses on AI agents
The useful question here is not how advanced you are — it is whether you will be writing code. An agent can be assembled inside a product built for it, a helpdesk or a CRM or a workflow builder, where the work is configuration and judgment; or built against a model's programming interface with a framework, where the work is engineering. Both are genuinely building agents and the underlying ideas are identical, but the courses have almost nothing in common. One thing more before you choose: agent tooling is still largely vendor-specific, so a course usually teaches one stack — pick the stack you can actually use where you work.
Learn AI — understand what agents are
Use AI — build agents inside a product
Agents and Workflows
OpenAI Academy
Create agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft Learn
Discover Agentforce Service
Salesforce (Trailhead)
Explore role-based AI agent skills for business users
Microsoft Learn
Introduction to Agents and Google's Agent Ecosystem
Google Skills
Introduction to AI Agents
DataCamp
Introduction to Claude Cowork
Anthropic
Setting Up Your AI-First Helpdesk
Fin (formerly Intercom)
Transform your everyday business processes with agents
Microsoft Learn
Use AI in Your Design Workflows
Figma
Zendesk AI
Zendesk (Zendesk Academy)
Develop AI — build agents in code
Agentic AI on Google Cloud
Google Skills
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Getting Started
AWS Skill Builder
Build a Deep Research Agent
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
Building Agentic AI Applications with LLMs
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
Building AI Agents with Multimodal Models
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
Building Generative AI Applications Using Amazon Bedrock
AWS Skill Builder
Building Marketing Workflows with n8n
DataCamp
Building RAG Agents with LLMs
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
Building with the Claude API
Anthropic
Claude Code 101
Anthropic
Claude Platform 101
Anthropic
Develop agents and applications using agentic programming tools
Microsoft Learn
Develop AI agents on Azure
Microsoft Learn
Developing in Agentic AI Systems Part 1 of 2
Microsoft Learn
Developing LLM Applications with LangChain
DataCamp
Fundamentals of Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Google Skills
GitHub Copilot Fundamentals Part 2 of 2
Microsoft Learn
Introduction to agent skills
Anthropic
Introduction to Model Context Protocol
Anthropic
Introduction to subagents
Anthropic
Learn Cursor
Cursor
Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics
Anthropic
Agents are one thread in a larger subject. If the vocabulary is still the obstacle, Learn AI covers the ground agents take for granted. If you want to put them to work in a job you already do, Use AI is the wider set. If you are building them, Develop AI covers the engineering around them.
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