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VIDEO COURSE · intermediate

Build Useful AI Agents & Automations

Design a focused agent workflow with clear tool boundaries, approvals and recovery paths.

With Instructor to be announced

This course is in development. The curriculum is a planned outline; recorded lessons and PDF slides are not yet available.

What you’ll learn

  • Choose an appropriate automation task
  • Define agent permissions and tool contracts
  • Evaluate failure and recovery

Before you start

  • Comfort with basic UX methods
  • A practical project to apply the lessons

Planned curriculum

Choose a useful task
  1. Separate automation from product value

    Practice: separate automation from product value. Capture your decisions and evidence in a project worksheet.

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  2. Map inputs, outputs and human decisions

    Practice: map inputs, outputs and human decisions. Capture your decisions and evidence in a project worksheet.

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Build the workflow
  1. Define tools and permission boundaries

    Practice: define tools and permission boundaries. Capture your decisions and evidence in a project worksheet.

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  2. Add checkpoints and recovery

    Practice: add checkpoints and recovery. Capture your decisions and evidence in a project worksheet.

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Evaluate reliability
  1. Test representative and adversarial cases

    Practice: test representative and adversarial cases. Capture your decisions and evidence in a project worksheet.

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  2. Measure quality, cost and completion

    Practice: measure quality, cost and completion. Capture your decisions and evidence in a project worksheet.

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