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    microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners

    18 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents

    ai-agents
    ai
    agentic-ai
    agentic-framework
    agentic-rag
    ai-agents-framework
    autogen
    Jupyter Notebook
    MIT
    78.8K stars
    25.8K forks
    78.8K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 4, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 112 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 29% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a comprehensive course with 18 lessons to teach building AI agents using Python and Microsoft AI frameworks.
    • Offers multi-language support and practical code samples integrating Azure AI Foundry and GitHub Model Catalogs for hands-on learning.
    • Use for beginners seeking structured lessons to understand AI agent design patterns and frameworks.
    • Use for developers wanting to implement trustworthy and scalable AI agents in production environments.
    • Use for educators or trainers needing a ready-to-use curriculum with videos, code, and resources for teaching AI agent development.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

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    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    If you wish to have additional translations languages supported are listed here

    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.

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

    Excerpt from the microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    25.8K+2.2K

    Open issues

    5-5

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