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Video course · 15 chapters · 120 min · certificate

AI Agents for Absolute Beginners: Build Real Automations Fast

AI agents for absolute beginners: what agents are, custom agents that work in the background, a live chief-of-staff demo, MCP explained, security and permissions, skills and scheduled tasks, plus practical Q&A.

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What you'll learn

  • Explain what AI agents are in plain terms
  • Build custom agents that work in the background
  • Set up a chief-of-staff agent
  • Explain MCP with a simple analogy
  • Manage agent security and permissions
  • Create skills and scheduled tasks

Chapters

15 chapters · 119:30
  1. 4:19 01Intro Members Welcome A live session on AI agents for beginners, with a guest who builds them daily.
  2. 7:01 02Basics Members What are AI agents? Agents as a proactive chief of staff that gets work done without constant prompting.
  3. 9:50 03Progress Members Custom agents that work in the background Custom agents can now wake up and do work in the background, inside mainstream tools.
  4. 4:30 04Demo Members Demo: chief of staff A chief-of-staff agent running in Cowork from a dedicated folder.
  5. 14:44 05MCP Members MCP explained MCP explained with a restaurant analogy: the waiter is the API.
  6. 16:51 06Security Members Security and permissions When agents can see and act on everything, permissions and caution matter.
  7. 11:48 07Skills Members Skills and daily use Investing time in skills with a skill creator for daily use.
  8. 9:12 08Automation Members Scheduled tasks Scheduled tasks that run and summarize on their own.
  9. 5:54 09Q&A Members Q&A: avoiding overbuilding Questions and a common bad habit: overbuilding.
  10. 5:53 10Q&A Members Q&A: running Claude from home Running agents from a home machine and remote access questions.
  11. 5:54 11Q&A Members Q&A: subscriptions and billing Using a subscription versus API billing when running Claude tools.
  12. 5:53 12Q&A Members Q&A: local models Questions on running local models and which are good for their size.
  13. 5:54 13Q&A Members Q&A: testing models via the cloud Testing many models cheaply through routing services instead of local installs.
  14. 5:53 14Q&A Members Q&A: AI does the git work Even developers now ask AI to handle tasks like Git commands.
  15. 5:54 15Q&A Members Q&A: agents in messaging apps Running agents through Telegram or WhatsApp in the cloud.

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