Course 23

Optimizing AI Agents

Advanced techniques for production AI agents — picking the right model, tuning tool definitions, calibrating behavior, and thinking through security.

4 units

  1. Unit 1 Tool optimization This unit teaches you to optimize tools for your AI agents and apply best practices to make the most out of your tools. 16 min
  2. Unit 2 Calibrating your AI agent The context window holds everything your AI agent needs to work: your system prompt, context files, tool definitions, tool inputs and outputs, and conversation history. 17 min
  3. Unit 3 Model choice and advanced settings In unit 1, you learned best practices for configuring and optimizing your AI agent's tools. 15 min
  4. Unit 4 Security considerations In the previous unit, you learned how to give knowledge to your AI agent. Now let's explore the security considerations you need to address when building agents and providing them with knowledge. 17 min