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AI Agents Learning Roadmap
A reading order Chiranjib uses when he explains agents to students and founders. Each link goes to someone else's official docs, free course, or essay. This page does not copy their lessons.
The searchable directory of free frameworks, models, courses and tools is on Learn. This page is the shorter reading order. Links were checked on 3 November 2026. If a vendor moves a doc, the stage still tells you what to look up. The taught version of this path, in your language and in Odia, is on the course waitlist. It is not recorded yet.
Stage 01
Foundations of LLMs
What a language model is doing, before any agent framework. Enough to tell a demo apart from a system.
- Andrej Karpathy — Neural Networks: Zero to Hero (opens in a new tab)Free video course, from scratch.
- Andrej Karpathy — Intro to Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)Free YouTube lecture.
- Hugging Face — LLM Course (opens in a new tab)Free course. Start at chapter 1.
- Google — Introduction to Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)Free chapter of the Machine Learning Crash Course.
- Stephen Wolfram — What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? (opens in a new tab)Free long essay.
- DeepLearning.AI — Generative AI for Everyone (opens in a new tab)Free short course by Andrew Ng.
Stage 02
Prompting
How you ask, what you put in the context window, and how you check the answer. Official guides first.
- OpenAI — Prompt engineering (opens in a new tab)Official API docs.
- Anthropic — Prompt engineering overview (opens in a new tab)Official Claude docs.
- Google — Prompting strategies (opens in a new tab)Official Gemini docs.
- DAIR.AI — Prompt Engineering Guide (opens in a new tab)Free public guide.
- DeepLearning.AI — ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers (opens in a new tab)Free short course by Isa Fulford and Andrew Ng.
- Anthropic — Interactive prompt engineering tutorial (opens in a new tab)Free notebooks on GitHub.
Stage 03
RAG
Retrieval augmented generation: answering from your own documents instead of from the model's memory.
- LlamaIndex — Understanding RAG (opens in a new tab)Official conceptual docs.
- Pinecone — What is retrieval augmented generation? (opens in a new tab)Free learning article.
- DAIR.AI — RAG (opens in a new tab)Free technique page in the prompting guide.
- Hugging Face Cookbook — Advanced RAG (opens in a new tab)Free notebook-style walkthrough.
- LangChain docs — RAG with Deep Agents (opens in a new tab)Current official LangChain RAG page.
Stage 04
Tool use and function calling
The jump from a chatbot to something that can look something up, write a row, or send a message.
Stage 05
Agent frameworks
Pick one stack and build a small agent. The framework is the easy part. State, tools and failure handling are the work.
- LangGraph (opens in a new tab)Official docs.
- LangChain — Workflows and agents (opens in a new tab)Official guide.
- OpenAI Agents SDK (opens in a new tab)Official Python docs.
- CrewAI (opens in a new tab)Official docs.
- Microsoft AutoGen (opens in a new tab)Official docs.
- Hugging Face — smolagents (opens in a new tab)Official docs for a small agent library.
- n8n docs (opens in a new tab)Official docs, for workflow-shaped automation.
Stage 06
Evals
How you tell whether the agent is actually working, on examples you wrote down, before a customer finds out.
- OpenAI — Evals (opens in a new tab)Official API docs.
- Anthropic — Develop tests (opens in a new tab)Official Claude eval docs.
- Anthropic — Demystifying evals for AI agents (opens in a new tab)Free engineering essay.
- Hamel Husain — LLM evals (opens in a new tab)Free field guide.
- Hugging Face Cookbook — RAG evaluation (opens in a new tab)Free walkthrough.
Stage 07
Deployment
Put it where it can run tomorrow: logs, secrets, a host, and a way to turn it off.
- OpenAI — Production best practices (opens in a new tab)Official API docs.
- FastAPI — Deployment (opens in a new tab)Official docs.
- n8n — Host n8n (opens in a new tab)Official self-hosting docs.
- n8n — Integrate AI (opens in a new tab)Official docs for AI steps inside n8n.
- Vercel AI SDK (opens in a new tab)Official introduction.
- Hugging Face Spaces (opens in a new tab)Official docs for hosting demos.