This course is designed to teach participants how to create, deploy, and manage intelligent AI agents using Microsoft’s Azure AI Agent Service. Students will learn to integrate advanced AI capabilities through agents into scalable, customizable solutions.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Fundamentals of AI agents on Azure
- Introduction
- What are AI agents?
- Options for agent development
- Azure AI Agent Service
- Exercise – Explore AI Agent development
- Module assessment
- Summary
Lesson 2: Develop an AI agent with Azure AI Agent Service
- Introduction
- What is an AI agent
- How to use Azure AI Agent Service
- Develop agents with the Azure AI Agent Service
- Exercise – Build an AI agent
- Module assessment
- Summary
Lesson 3: Integrate custom tools into your agent
- Introduction
- Why use custom tools
- Options for implementing custom tools
- How to integrate custom tools
- Exercise – Build an agent with custom tools
- Module assessment
- Summary
Lesson 4: Develop an AI agent with Semantic Kernel
- Introduction
- Understand Semantic Kernel AI agents
- Create an Azure AI agent with Semantic Kernel
- Add plugins to Azure AI agent
- Exercise – Develop an Azure AI agent with the Semantic Kernel SDK
- Knowledge check
- Summary
Lesson 5: Orchestrate a multi-agent solution using Semantic Kernel
- Introduction
- Understand the Semantic Kernel Agent Framework
- Create an agent group chat
- Design an agent selection strategy
- Define a chat termination strategy
- Exercise – Develop a multi-agent solution
- Knowledge check
- Summary
