Kickstart your journey in AI agent design by mastering foundational architectures and practical implementation tactics. Learn to decompose systems for effective design, map business goals to technical objectives, and visualize agent-environment interactions for stakeholder communication. Build skills in state encoding, action selection, and rigorous agent evaluation, ensuring you can confidently create baseline models for benchmark tasks and rapidly iterate toward practical solutions that address business needs in global contexts.



Foundations of Agent-Based AI Systems
This course is part of Build AI Agents with Practical App Design Specialization

Instructor: LearnQuest Network
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There are 3 modules in this course
In this module, you’ll explore the foundational design patterns and tools that power real-world, agent-based AI systems. You’ll learn how to translate complex organizational goals into functional agent architectures by using proven decomposition and modeling techniques. Through hands-on practice with UML diagrams, workflow schematics, and requirements analysis, you’ll gain clarity and control over agent-environment relationships. This module arms you with the skills to bridge technical and business priorities, setting the stage for robust, actionable solutions in any data-driven setting.
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9 videos1 reading2 assignments3 plugins
In this module, you will master the critical skills of action selection and state representation—cornerstones of powerful agent-based AI systems. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll learn to transform real-world scenarios into precise state-action frameworks using advanced feature engineering, dimensionality reduction, and state-of-the-art ML algorithms. By simulating and visualizing agent decisions, you’ll build models that are not only highly accurate but also responsive and robust in dynamic environments. This module empowers you to confidently bridge the gap between complex data and high-impact agent behaviors.
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7 videos1 reading2 assignments2 plugins
Move beyond building agents—learn to benchmark, test, and refine them to elevate results in real-world scenarios. In this module, you will build baseline models, apply industry-standard evaluation frameworks, and use data-driven methods to pinpoint and remedy weaknesses in agent performance. By mastering rapid prototyping, agile iteration, and continuous feedback, you’ll transform simple agents into robust solutions that improve with every cycle. Develop the confidence to produce models that not only work but continually outperform expectations.
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