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microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners

18 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents. Why it matters: worth a look if you build or run autonomous agents.

GitHub description: 18 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents

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Who it's for

Developers and students who are new to AI agents and want a structured, hands-on course using Microsoft Agent Framework and Microsoft Foundry.

  • Building agents that use tools, plan tasks, and coordinate with other agents
  • Adding retrieval and memory to agents with agentic RAG
  • Deploying, securing, and running agents in production

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RuntimePython, Azure account (Microsoft Foundry)

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About ai-agents-for-beginners

microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners is a Jupyter Notebook project in the AI agents category, created 23 months ago. It has 77k GitHub stars and 25k forks, and gained +788 stars over the last 7 days (early estimate), ranking #33 of 104 AI agents repos tracked by OSS Radar this week.

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Language
Jupyter Notebook
Category
AI agents
Created
Nov 28, 2024
Last push
Oct 13, 2026
  • agentic-ai
  • agentic-framework
  • agentic-rag
  • ai-agents
  • ai-agents-framework
  • autogen
  • foundry
  • foundry-local
  • generative-ai
  • microsoft-foundry
  • semantic-kernel

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