Introduction

Lab goals	Learn the basics of building AI agents
What you'll learn	What are AI agents
	When to use AI agents?
	Components of an AI agent
	Building basic tool-calling agents
	Different reasoning techniques for agents
	Adding memory to agents
Time to complete	90 mins

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For this lab, you will need:

• Basic to intermediate knowledge of Python
• A laptop with the latest version of Python installed

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