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One-Day Intensive

Intro to Agents: 1-Day Intensive

08.03.26 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT 6 hours in one focused day

Build your first autonomous agent from scratch in a single day - a condensed, hands-on version of our full 8-week Intro to Agents course.

with Liz Howard

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Part of the Agent Engineering Stack: From Zero to Production in 3 Days track, 8 classes, take them in any order.

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  1. Intro to Agents: 1-Day Intensive Date TBA
  2. Context Engineering Date TBA
  3. Production Agent Engineering Date TBA
  4. Intro to Agents: 1-Day Intensive You're here
  5. Context Engineering Date TBA
  6. Agentic SDLC Date TBA
  7. Agentic SDLC Date TBA
  8. Agentic SDLC: Ship Software with AI Agent Teams Date TBA

Overview

This intensive teaches you how to build autonomous agents from scratch in a single day. This is a condensed version of our full 8-week Intro to Agents course, covering essential patterns: the basic agent pattern (ReACT), request-response agents with production frameworks, RAG with vector databases, building your own agent framework, and multi-agent coordination. Perfect for developers who want hands-on experience with agent fundamentals before diving into the full course.

What You'll Master

  • How to build agents using the ReACT pattern (Reason, Act, Observe)
  • Request-response agents with Claude Agent SDK and OpenAI Agents SDK
  • RAG implementation with FAISS and pgvector for retrieval
  • Building your own minimal agent framework (~140 lines of code)
  • Multi-agent coordination patterns (sequential, parallel, hierarchical)
  • Framework comparison: Autogen, LangGraph, OpenAI Swarm
  • When to use agents vs. simple prompts and common pitfalls

Who this is for & what you'll need

Solo coding

You should be able to write in some language on your own.

A few installs

You'll install a couple of tools, we'll help you in class.

Where This Class Leads

What you leave able to do

  • construct a retrieval system
  • construct an agent that uses tools
  • govern a swarm by information hierarchy
  • re architect an agent as a stateless reducer
  • reconcile agents from different toolchains into one run
  • select among agent architectures
  • synthesise a self extending agent behind a review gate

How you show it. A diff the agent authored to its own prompt or toolset, the benchmark run that accepted it, and a logged rejection with the reason recorded.

It sits on 3 paths

The AI Builder6 of 12 after Claude Model Context Protocol · before Prompt Engineering The Founder6 of 7 after Context Engineering · before AI Security: Governance, Standards and Safety Cases The Weird Internet Wizard4 of 8 after The Interactive Fiction Intensive · before Automate Your Email: No Code AI Automation

About 67 hours of practice sit behind this one. See what your hours buy.

Join Us

One-Day Intensive

Suggested $350 pay what you can
  • 6-hour intensive hands-on workshop
  • Build working autonomous agents
  • Complete course materials and code examples
  • Framework comparison (Autogen, LangGraph, Swarm)
  • Agent design patterns and best practices
  • Access to recordings
  • Your seat in the class
  • Lifetime access to materials
  • Sponsors 1 scholarship seat for someone else

The minimum is $175, it keeps out spam. Need to pay less? Apply for a scholarship, no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Pay What You Can

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Instructor

Liz Howard

Liz Howard

Future Infinitive☸️ (Liz Howard) Founder & Professor, The Multiverse School Computer Science · AI · Cybersecurity Formerly faculty, Cal State Monterey Bay Co-founder, Hipcamp Previously built Hackbright Academy, Girl Develop It, Galvanize, Enki

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Want to schedule this class for your team?

Contact us: liz@themultiverse.school