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Build AI Agents with OpenAI SDK: Build Real Agentic AI

Build, debug and deploy real AI agents with the OpenAI Agents SDK — tools, RAG, MCP and multi-agent workflows included.

Duration
2 hours
Lectures
18
Level
All Levels
Learners
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  • Python
  • OpenAI Agents SDK
  • Function calling
  • RAG
  • MCP
  • Multi-agent orchestration

About this course

Move beyond single prompts and build real agentic AI. A practical, hands-on course covering the OpenAI Agents SDK end to end — tools, RAG, MCP, multi-agent handoffs, tracing and deployment — so your agents can reason, act and be trusted in production.

What you'll learn

  • Build real agents with the OpenAI Agents SDK
  • Give agents tools and function calling that actually work
  • Ground answers in your own data with RAG
  • Connect agents to live systems using MCP
  • Orchestrate multi-agent workflows with handoffs
  • Debug, trace and deploy agents with confidence

What you'll build

  • Your first working agent with the OpenAI Agents SDK

  • A tool-calling agent that takes real actions

  • A RAG-grounded agent that answers from your own documents

  • An MCP-connected agent reading live backend data

  • A multi-agent workflow with handoffs and guardrails

Project architecture

The pipeline you assemble across the course:

  1. User request
  2. Agent reasoning loop (OpenAI Agents SDK)
  3. Tools & function calls
  4. RAG retrieval over your data
  5. MCP access to live systems
  6. Handoff to specialist agent
  7. Traced, verified response

Curriculum overview

18 lectures · 2 hours of on-demand video.

  1. 01Agentic AI foundations

    • Why single prompts break down
    • Agent loops, state and reasoning
    • Setting up the OpenAI Agents SDK in Python
  2. 02Tools & function calling

    • Defining tools an agent can trust
    • Structured inputs and outputs
    • Error handling and retries
  3. 03RAG & MCP

    • Grounding agents in your own data
    • Retrieval that improves accuracy
    • Exposing live systems safely over MCP
  4. 04Multi-agent workflows

    • Specialist agents and handoffs
    • Guardrails and scope control
    • Orchestration patterns that scale
  5. 05Debugging & deployment

    • Tracing agent runs
    • Diagnosing bad reasoning
    • Shipping agents to production

FAQ

Do I need prior AI experience?

No. The course starts from agent fundamentals and builds up to multi-agent workflows.

Is this only for QA engineers?

No — any developer building LLM-powered products will use the same patterns, though QA use cases are covered.

What will I have at the end?

Working agents that use tools, RAG, MCP and handoffs, plus a repeatable way to debug and deploy them.

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