Understand course, Agents and tools

AI Agents and Tool Use

Design AI that can plan, use tools, and act, not just answer.

6 lessons · 46 min · Free · Earns the Curio AI Agents and Tool Use Mastery Credential

What you will learn

1. What is an agent7 minA model placed in a loop that can take actions and decide its next step toward a goal.
2. Tool use7 minLetting a model call functions, APIs, and search so it can act beyond text.
3. Agent loops8 minPlan, act, observe, repeat: how an agent makes progress across many steps.
4. Human in the loop8 minPausing an automated run for a person to approve, choose, or correct before it continues.
5. Multi-agent systems8 minSeveral specialized agents coordinated by an orchestrator instead of one model doing everything.
6. Orchestration and critic loops8 minOrdinary code that routes the agents, plus a reviewer agent that catches errors before they ship.