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Module 6 of 11

Tools and agents

  • Advanced
  • 3 lessons
  • 1 h 35 min

Chapter 6 · The Lowtide Sleeper

Night has fallen and the luggage needs moving. Wick runs the Porter Car: he can haul, open and sign, and he does exactly what the note says. Tonight you help the crew decide what he may do alone, how a job of many steps ends, and what happens when someone proposes one standard connector for every car.

What you will be able to do

  • Explain how tool calling works and design a tool-using agent.
  • Use MCP to connect tools and know its security risks.

Lessons

  1. Function and tool calling

    30 minAdvanced

    Read first: Prompting fundamentals

  2. Agentic patterns: ReAct, planning and memory

    30 minAdvanced

    Read first: Function and tool calling, Reasoning models and structured outputs

  3. Model Context Protocol and tool ecosystems

    35 minAdvanced

    Read first: Function and tool calling

End of chapter 6 · The Lowtide Sleeper

Wick still says "Right away", but now the key ring has a hook for the keys he is not given.

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