README

AI Agents for Beginners - A Course

!AI Agents for Beginners

 A course teaching everything you need to know to start building AI Agents







 🌐 Multi-Language Support

 Translations maintained with Co-op Translator


Arabic | Bengali | Bulgarian | Burmese (Myanmar) | Chinese (Simplified) | Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong) | Chinese (Traditional, Macau) | Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) | Croatian | Czech | Danish | Dutch | Estonian | Finnish | French | German | Greek | Hebrew | Hindi | Hungarian | Indonesian | Italian | Japanese | Kannada | Khmer | Korean | Lithuanian | Malay | Malayalam | Marathi | Nepali | Nigerian Pidgin | Norwegian | Persian (Farsi) | Polish | Portuguese (Brazil) | Portuguese (Portugal) | Punjabi (Gurmukhi) | Romanian | Russian | Serbian (Cyrillic) | Slovak | Slovenian | Spanish | Swahili | Swedish | Tagalog (Filipino) | Tamil | Telugu | Thai | Turkish | Ukrainian | Urdu | Vietnamese

 Prefer to Clone Locally?

 This repository includes 50+ language translations which significantly increases the download size. To clone without translations, use sparse checkout:

 Bash / macOS / Linux:
 bash
 git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners.git
 cd ai-agents-for-beginners
 git sparse-checkout set --no-cone '/' '!translations' '!translated_images'
 

 CMD (Windows):
 cmd
 git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners.git
 cd ai-agents-for-beginners
 git sparse-checkout set --no-cone "/" "!translations" "!translated_images"
 

 This gives you everything you need to complete the course with a much faster download.


For additional language options, see Co-op Translator's supported languages.








 🌱 Getting Started

This course has lessons covering the fundamentals of building AI Agents. Each lesson covers its own topic so start wherever you like!

There is multi-language support for this course. Go to our available languages here. 

If this is your first time building with Generative AI models, check out our Generative AI For Beginners course, which includes 21 lessons on building with GenAI.

Don't forget to star (🌟) this repo and fork this repo to run the code.

 Meet Other Learners, Get Your Questions Answered

If you get stuck or have any questions about building AI Agents, join our dedicated Discord Channel in the Microsoft Foundry Discord.

 What You Need 

Each lesson in this course includes code examples, which can be found in the code_samples folder. You can fork this repo to create your own copy.  

The code examples in these exercises utilize Microsoft Agent Framework with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service V2:

- Microsoft Foundry - Azure Account Required

This course uses the following AI Agent frameworks and services from Microsoft:

- Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF)
- Microsoft Foundry Agent Service V2

Some code samples also support alternative OpenAI-compatible providers such as MiniMax, which offers large-context models (up 

Top issues