Complete AI Training
Sign inBecome a member

Your job's AI kit

Get your AI kit

Tell us who you are and what you do. We show you your kit right away and email you the link: skills, prompts, AI agents, MCP servers and courses for your job.

500+ jobs ready, and we make a kit for any other job. No payment needed to look.

Share

Video course · 13 chapters · 30 min · certificate

AI Agents for Beginners: From Chatbots to Autonomous Tools

AI Master teaches what separates agents from chatbots and how to connect them to tools, files, and apps. The course covers a hands-on demo, six agent tools, permission control, prompt contracts, and project memory.

Watch chapter 1 freeGet the full courseAlready a member? Sign in

What you'll learn

  • Understand the difference between a chatbot and an AI agent.
  • Identify the parts of an agent: model, tools, memory, and goal.
  • Connect agents to tools using MCP servers.
  • Compare agent tools like Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Grok Bot, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw.
  • Set permission rules based on risk and reversibility.
  • Write a short prompt contract with boundaries and a done condition.

Chapters

13 chapters · 30:18
  1. 1:54 01Intro Free preview AI Agents Course Overview and Dinosaur Folder Demo Watch an agent turn a messy dinosaur folder into sorted, named, usable files.
  2. 3:36 02Foundations Members What AI Agents Are An agent is a model plus tools, memory, and a goal running in a loop.
  3. 2:56 03Tool protocol Members MCP: Giving Agents Tools MCP is a standard connector that lets one agent use many tools through small servers.
  4. 1:34 04Coding agent Members Claude Code Claude Code is a local agent that writes code, edits files, and tracks long work on your machine.
  5. 1:24 05Sandbox agent Members Codex Codex works in an isolated sandbox copy, so a bad run does not touch your original folder.
  6. 2:09 06Visual agent Members Antigravity Antigravity is a Gemini-built agent with visible task lists, browser control, and editor extensions.
  7. 1:57 07Bot fleet Members Grok Bot Grok Bot gives always-on bots on a dedicated machine that can share work and approvals.
  8. 1:51 08Async agent Members Hermes Agent Hermes Agent runs in the background, checks triggers, and reports to chat before making changes.
  9. 1:22 09Self-hosted Members OpenClaw OpenClaw is a self-hosted agent you control, from model choice to tools and behavior.
  10. 1:26 10Decision guide Members Choosing the Right Agent Start where the work lives, then match the agent to the job type.
  11. 1:41 11Permissions Members How Much Control to Give Match agent permissions to how easy an action is to reverse.
  12. 5:18 12Prompting Members The Prompt Contract Give agents a clear contract: goal, boundaries, input, output, and a done condition.
  13. 3:10 13Memory Members Agent Memory and Final Thoughts Use project memory to make agents better over time, and keep the file short.

Jobs this course suits

Our AI checked this course against 500 jobs; these get the most out of it. Each job links to its learning path.

Systems AnalystsIT ConsultantsProcess Improvement AnalystsIT SpecialistsIT Support SpecialistsInsurance Operations ManagersOperation ManagersTechnical Sales RepresentativesManager of ITsManager of OperationsOperations ManagersTechnical Support Specialists