Course: How to build an agentic harness

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I’m currently taking the Agentic AI course. I’ve taken other courses like it, but so far this one is better! The others mainly seemed like courseware veneers over evangelism for a particular platform. But hey - they were free!

For my way of learning, I would find it beneficial to have a course where I actually build some kind of agentic harness. That is to say, even at a toy level, the software that implements tool use around an LLM, handles various kinds of memory, negotiates communications between agents, etc. I guess it would be like building a toy version of the platforms mentioned above. I’m about halfway through the Agentic AI course and it doesn’t look like that will be part of it. Does anyone know of another course that provides that kind of experience?

I’m prepared to dive into it myself if needed, but I’d prefer something created by an instructor.

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For instance, I see this comment in one of the labs:
“AISuite handles the complexity of translating python functions into tool schemas and orchestrating multi-step workflows.”

So maybe what I’m looking for is a course where you build elements, even at a toy level, of something like AISuite.

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Hi mnjrrz,

Great point. I agree that more attention to harnesses is warranted.

I do not know of any course that discusses this. What you could do is have a look at the aisuite github page ( GitHub - andrewyng/aisuite: Simple, unified interface to multiple Generative AI providers · GitHub ) and some of the code it uses (e.g. at aisuite/aisuite/providers at main · andrewyng/aisuite · GitHub).