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Guide

OpenAI

A Practical Guide to Building AI Agents

A grounded framework for deciding when to use agents, choosing tools and models, structuring orchestration, and adding guardrails.

architecturetoolsguardrails
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Article

Anthropic

Building Effective Agents

Patterns for prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator-worker systems, evaluators, and autonomous agents.

patternsworkflowsorchestration
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Course

Hugging Face

AI Agents Course

A free, hands-on path through agent fundamentals, frameworks, agentic RAG, observability, evaluation, and a final project.

smolagentsLangGraphagentic RAG
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Docs

OpenAI

OpenAI Agents SDK

Developer documentation for agent loops, handoffs, guardrails, sessions, tracing, tools, and realtime agents in Python.

Pythonhandoffstracing
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Docs

LangChain

LangGraph Overview

The core concepts behind durable, stateful agent graphs with persistence, streaming, interrupts, and human oversight.

state graphspersistencehuman in the loop
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Docs

Microsoft

GraphRAG: Getting Started

An end-to-end introduction to indexing unstructured text into a knowledge graph and querying it with local and global search.

knowledge graphsRAGretrieval
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Docs

NetworkX

NetworkX Introduction

A practical reference for graph types, nodes, edges, attributes, algorithms, traversal, analysis, and graph data structures.

Pythonalgorithmsgraph theory
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Docs

Neo4j

Graph Data Science Manual

Production-oriented documentation for graph projections, algorithms, machine learning pipelines, and graph embeddings.

Neo4jembeddingsgraph ML
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Guide

LangChain

Workflows and Agents in LangGraph

Examples of deterministic workflows and dynamic agent loops, including tool execution and conditional control flow.

control flowtoolsstate
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Paper

arXiv

ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting

The foundational paper on interleaving reasoning traces with actions and observations so language models can interact with tools.

reasoningactionstool use
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Paper

arXiv

Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning

A research pattern where agents reflect on feedback, store verbal lessons, and improve behavior across repeated attempts.

reflectionmemoryfeedback
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Article

Lilian Weng

LLM Powered Autonomous Agents

A visual technical survey of planning, memory, tool use, self-reflection, and the practical limitations of agent systems.

planningmemoryreflection
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Video course

DeepLearning.AI

Evaluating AI Agents

A short video course on tracing agent behavior, evaluating trajectories, building structured graders, and monitoring quality.

evaluationtracingmonitoring
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Video course

Full Stack Deep Learning

Large Language Models Bootcamp

Recorded lectures on prompt engineering, augmented language models, LLMOps, deployment, product design, and UX.

LLMOpsdeploymentproduct
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Video course

Andrej Karpathy

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

A code-first video series that builds neural networks from basic backpropagation through language models and GPT.

neural networksbackpropagationGPT
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Video course

PyTorch

Introduction to PyTorch

A video-backed tutorial covering tensors, model construction, autograd, datasets, training, and inference with PyTorch.

PyTorchtensorstraining
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Guide

Google

Rules of Machine Learning

Google's practical guidance for metrics, infrastructure, simple baselines, training-serving consistency, and production iteration.

productionmetricspipelines
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Guide

Google

Deep Learning Tuning Playbook

A systematic guide to choosing objectives, designing experiments, debugging training, and tuning deep learning models.

experimentsoptimizationdebugging
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Course

PyTorch

Learn the Basics with PyTorch

A complete beginner workflow from tensors and datasets through model building, optimization, and saving trained models.

training loopdata loadersmodels
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Course

Made With ML

MLOps Course

A project-based course covering data preparation, training, tracking, serving, testing, versioning, CI/CD, and monitoring.

MLOpstestingmonitoring
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Course

Hugging Face

Hugging Face LLM Course

A practical course on transformers, tokenizers, datasets, fine-tuning, model sharing, demos, and advanced LLM topics.

transformersfine-tuningNLP