Tool Calling, Agents & Workflow Orchestration
Build AI systems that go beyond chat — learn to design tool-calling LLMs, autonomous agents, and orchestrated workflows that take real actions in production environments. From your first API integration to a fully deployed AI operations system with guardrails, memory, and human-in-the-loop controls.
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Episode 0: Tool Calling,Agents & Workflow Orchestration - Introduction
Meet OpsPilot, a helpless FAQ chatbot about to become an autonomous operations system. See the full roadmap from simple tool calls to production-ready AI workflows.
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Episode 1: From Chatbots to Actionable AI Systems
Discover why AI that only generates text hits a ceiling, and map the spectrum from tool calling to agents to full workflow orchestration.
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Episode 2:Tool Calling Fundamentals
Learn how LLMs decide when to call external APIs, how tool schemas drive selection accuracy, and what really happens under the hood.
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Episode 3:Designing Tool Interfaces & Validation
Design production-safe tool schemas with input validation, least-privilege scoping, and descriptions that prevent dangerous misuse.
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Episode 4:Error Handling & Multi-Tool Reliability
Build AI systems that handle API failures gracefully with smart retries, partial results, and dependency chain management.
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Episode 5: What Agents Are & How They Reason
Understand what separates a true AI agent from a tool-calling model, and learn ReAct, Chain-of-Thought, and reflection patterns.
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Episode 6: Agent Architectures & When to Use Them
Choose between reactive, planning, and supervisor/worker agent architectures — and know when a simple script beats an agent.
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Episode 7: Multi-Step Tasks, Memory & State
Give AI systems persistent memory across conversations, checkpointed state for long-running tasks, and human approval gates.
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Episode 8: Core Workflow Orchestration Patterns
Design sequential, parallel, and conditional AI workflows — then build a complete incident response pipeline from detection to resolution.
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Episode 9: Advanced Orchestration, Observability & Scaling
Add logging, tracing, and monitoring to AI workflows, and prepare them to handle hundreds of concurrent users.
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Episode 10: Safety, Guardrails & Production Deployment
Ship AI to production with permission models, audit trails, canary releases, and a trust gradient that earns autonomy over time.