Lesson 01 of 09

What an AI Agent Really Is

Cut through the hype: understand the difference between a chatbot, a RAG assistant, and a tool-using agent, and scope a realistic agent for a real workflow in your field. You'll produce an agent spec — purpose, users, knowledge sources, actions.

⏱ 50 min
Video coming soon
The written lesson is below. Video walkthrough publishes shortly.

Cut through the hype: understand the difference between a chatbot, a RAG assistant, and a tool-using agent, and scope a realistic agent for a real workflow in your field. You'll produce an agent spec — purpose, users, knowledge sources, actions.

The full video walkthrough is coming soon. In the meantime, this lesson covers the technique from first principles, with a worked example and a concrete deliverable you can add to your portfolio.