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microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners

18 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents

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Sep 16 – Nov 15, 2026

Stars +4,900 in 61 days

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Forks +1,673 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 40 in 61 days

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Wed, Sep 16, 2026+103+360#5
Thu, Sep 17, 2026+105+230#3
Fri, Sep 18, 2026+97+390#3
Sat, Sep 19, 2026+60+190#6
Sun, Sep 20, 2026+87+250#4
Mon, Sep 21, 2026+87+260#4
Tue, Sep 22, 2026+117+320#3
Wed, Sep 23, 2026+71+330#5
Thu, Sep 24, 2026+84+220#3
Fri, Sep 25, 2026+72+190#5
Sat, Sep 26, 2026+53+170#6
Sun, Sep 27, 2026+147+340#1
Mon, Sep 28, 2026+143+330#1
Tue, Sep 29, 2026+89+370#4
Wed, Sep 30, 2026+123+350#3
Thu, Oct 1, 2026+73+260#1
Fri, Oct 2, 2026+33+220#13
Sat, Oct 3, 2026+44+180#6
Sun, Oct 4, 2026+41+250#13
Mon, Oct 5, 2026+72+290#4
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+49+150#6
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+49+280#7
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+64+200#6
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+105+296#2
Sat, Oct 10, 2026+87+260#4
Sun, Oct 11, 2026+81+240#4
Mon, Oct 12, 2026+75+381#4
Tue, Oct 13, 2026+74+333#4
Wed, Oct 14, 2026+70+240#3
Thu, Oct 15, 2026+81+183#5
Fri, Oct 16, 2026+64+167#10
Sat, Oct 17, 2026+58+176#6
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+62+170#5
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+57+200#6
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+69+321#4
Wed, Oct 21, 2026+90+450#4
Thu, Oct 22, 2026+65+230#5
Fri, Oct 23, 2026+67+191#6
Sat, Oct 24, 2026+38+201#12
Sun, Oct 25, 2026+57+220#11
Mon, Oct 26, 2026+72+340#9
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+75+254#10
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+59+320#8
Thu, Oct 29, 2026+82+322#8
Fri, Oct 30, 2026+205+392#1
Sat, Oct 31, 2026+144+290#3
Sun, Nov 1, 2026+120+460#4
Mon, Nov 2, 2026+99+442#5
Tue, Nov 3, 2026+117+490#5
Wed, Nov 4, 2026+97+310#4
Thu, Nov 5, 2026+70+280#6
Fri, Nov 6, 2026+60+291#5
Sat, Nov 7, 2026+64+210#5
Sun, Nov 8, 2026+81+410#4
Mon, Nov 9, 2026+98+280#3
Tue, Nov 10, 2026+67+250#8
Wed, Nov 11, 2026+62+370#4
Thu, Nov 12, 2026+83+290#4
Fri, Nov 13, 2026+60+170Not trending
Sat, Nov 14, 2026+61+210Not trending
Sun, Nov 15, 2026+61+00Not trending
Total+4,900+1,67340
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    1. Nov 151 post

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      • 想学 AI 的朋友，这 7 个 GitHub 项目建议收藏！🤖 从零开始学 AI、开发自己的智能体，甚至亲手构建 GPT 模型，都能找到对应的免费学习资源。 ① 微软 AI Agents for Beginners 18 节课程，从基础到实战，学习工具调用、RAG、智能体记忆和多智能体协作。 ② Hugging Face Agents Course 通过实际项目学习 AI Agent，涉及…

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    4. Nov 92 posts

      • 12 free AI courses from the labs and companies building the stuff. Bookmark this 👇 - Anthropic: courses on Claude, prompting and building with the API - OpenAI: OpenAI Academy, from beginners to…

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      • 兄弟们 我操 微软开源了一个AI Agent入门教程‼️ 叫 AI Agents for Beginners 专门帮你从零开始系统学怎么做智能体 一共18门课 从基础概念到生产级部署全覆盖 你可以按顺序学 也可以直接挑想看的 主要讲这些： 设计模式、工具使用、规划能力、多智能体协作 还有Agentic RAG、上下文工程、记忆管理、协议这些 最后连生产部署、本地搭建、浏览器自动化和安全都带了…

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      • This is f*cking insane. Sam Altman sat down with Stanford business students last week and told them what disappoints him most about them: "My chronic disappointment with MBA students is that they…

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    7. Nov 51 post

      • 5/ Anthropic: Building Effective Agents - Routing and orchestrator-worker patterns - Evaluator-optimizer feedback loops - Practical tool use implementation - Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations

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      • 4. Attention + 6. Transformers • Jay Alammar Illustrated Transformer: 7. Fine-tuning • Hugging Face smol-course: • Unsloth: 8. Few-shot Prompting • Prompt Engineering Guide:

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    9. Oct 301 post

      • use the models 07 generative-ai-for-beginners: 21 lessons, real apps 08 Prompt-Engineering-Guide: prompting and context 09 claude-cookbooks: copy-paste recipes

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