How this course works

Setup & Prompts

Everything you need to actually run the labs: the build-only model, the exact folder layout (where your agents get created), one environment setup, a complete copy-paste prompt for every lab, and links to all the source docs.

The build-only model

Each module has one copy-paste prompt. You paste it into a fresh AI-coding-agent session; the agent builds the lab files but does not run them. You run each lab yourself in your terminal — that's how you see the colored traces and the interactive prompt.

Open a fresh session in Codex / Claude Code / Cursor, in your project folder.

Paste the lab's self-contained prompt (below). The agent sets up the venv and writes the lab files into my-agents/.

It stops with "Lab is ready. Run: python my-agents/labX.py".

Set your OPENAI_API_KEY and run the lab yourself to see traces + interactive mode.

Folder structure — where your agents are created

Your coding agent builds every lab into my-agents/. The docs you paste from live in course/agent-docs/; reference implementations live in course/labs/.

One-time environment setup

Python 3.11+ required. Do this once; later modules reuse the same venv.

macOS / Linux

mkdir -p my-agents
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install "deepagents>=0.4.3" \
            "langchain-openai>=1.1.8" \
            "openai>=1.66.0"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-your-key-here"

Windows

mkdir my-agents
python -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install "deepagents>=0.4.3" ^
            "langchain-openai>=1.1.8" ^
            "openai>=1.66.0"
set OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-your-key-here

KeyOPENAI_API_KEY must start with "sk-" — get one at platform.openai.com/api-keys

One self-contained prompt per lab

Each prompt is complete — it includes the venv setup, the exact pip install, trace_utils.py, and the full lab code. Click Copy, paste into a fresh Codex / Claude Code / Cursor session in an empty folder, and it builds the files (no repo needed). You then run the lab yourself.

All source docs

The full markdown your agent consumes — open or download any of them.

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