Learning path
Agent Essentials
Master the core pillars of the Microsoft Agent Framework. Build a production-ready triage assistant from scratch, mastering tools, memory, and hosting.
Curriculum
Master the curriculum step-by-step
Build Your First AI Agent
Initialize an incident triage agent and connect it to a large language model provider.
Connect Your Agent to External Tools
Equip your agent with custom .NET functions to query live system health data and provide grounded responses.
Maintain Context with Multi-Turn Conversations
Implement state management using agent sessions to handle follow-up questions and preserve history.
Persist Conversations and Smart Memory
Learn to save conversation history across restarts and implement structured memory using AIContextProviders.
Expose Your Agent via API
Take Jordan Miller's incident triage assistant out of the terminal and host it as a scalable service.
The Result
What you'll achieve
After completing the Agent Essentials path, you will have built 5 production-ready projects that demonstrate master the core pillars of the microsoft agent framework. build a production-ready triage assistant from scratch, mastering tools, memory, and hosting.
Each tutorial produces a runnable sample. By the end of this path, you'll have the practical foundation and a portfolio of agent applications to build anything you can imagine.