AI Agents for Beginners
A practical foundation course for anyone who wants to understand AI agents and design and test a first simple solution.
After the course you can:
- ✓Explain the difference between chat, assistant, agent and automation
- ✓Choose a suitable first task
- ✓Describe goal, input, steps and result
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12 months of access · updates included
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- 12 months of access
- Certificate with verification link
- Swedish company, reg. no. 559599-6850
A first solution need not be a complex autonomous agent. Learn to create a reusable assistant with a clear goal, saved instructions, approved source material and a person who reviews the result, without coding.
Nine short parts take you from basic concepts to practical choices and exercises. Develop one idea step by step, test it against five difficult situations and leave with an agent map, a copy-ready instruction, a safety checklist and a 30-day pilot plan. Your answers and progress are saved to your account.
What you will build
Foundations and strategy
You will learn to: Distinguish between prompts, AI assistants, AI agents, and automation, and plan a first well-scoped AI assistant
You produce the starter map for a first AI assistant: a bounded task, approved material, five tests, a human checkpoint and a plan for the first 30 days. You start the work yourself and review the result. Nothing runs on its own in other systems.
What you will be able to do
- ✓Explain the difference between chat, assistant, agent and automation
- ✓Choose a suitable first task
- ✓Describe goal, input, steps and result
- ✓Test quality and handle uncertainty
- ✓Decide where a human must review
- ✓A personal course certificate once you have completed all parts and passed the knowledge test – with its own verification link, easy to share on LinkedIn or add to your profile.
Course content
- 1Start and goals
- 2AI agent basics
- 3Useful examples
- 4Choose the first task
- 5Map the workflow
- 6Build without code
- 7Test quality
- 8Safety and starter map
- 9Quiz and 30-day plan
The courses are created by Michael Hammarstedt, founder of AI-agentutbildning. I'm not a programmer by background – I started with vibe coding myself. That's why the courses explain everything step by step, with no prior knowledge needed.
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- What is an AI agent? A simple explanation with examples
A guide that explains the core idea before you start.
- The difference between a chatbot, an AI assistant, and an AI agent
A comparison of the three solutions before you choose.
- Build your first AI assistant
The follow-up course: you build and test your own solution and leave with ready-to-use material. Prerequisite: basic familiarity with AI chat tools.
Source-checked content
The course is reviewed against official documentation and established standards. The organizations below are examples of sources whose material the content builds on.
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- NIST
- OWASP GenAI Security Project
- Last checked:
- September 19, 2026
- Next scheduled review:
- December 19, 2026