AI Agents For Beginners – OpenClaw Case Study

AI can feel overwhelming, but this hands-on course makes it practical, approachable, and fun. You will start with AI fundamentals and model mechanics like transformers and tokens, before moving into the architecture of tools, workflows, and true agents. You will build and experiment with four distinct agents, seeing firsthand how single agents evolve into a multi-agent system. Finally, you will learn how OpenClaw woks to gain the confidence needed to design, build, test, and deploy real-world AI agents.

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Chapters
Section 1 & 2: LLM & Core Concepts
- 00:00:00 Course Welcome & Architecture Fundamentals
- 00:07:54 Hallucinations, Model Evolution, & Competitors
- 00:15:23 Developer Fundamentals & Working with APIs
- 00:17:54 Token Economics & Managing Context Windows
- 00:31:13 API Message Roles & Prompt Engineering Nuances

Section 3 & 4: Code Setup & Tool Architecture
- 00:38:29 Hands-On Lab: Practice Labs & First API Call
- 00:45:01 Multi-Turn History, API Costs, & Trade-offs
- 00:51:08 Architecture Overview: Tool Schemas & Execution Loops
- 00:58:20 Predefined AI Workflows vs. Autonomous Agents

Section 5: Building Agents from Scratch
- 01:08:16 The Core Loop: Perceive, Reason, Act
- 01:13:15 Hands-On Lab: Engineering the Standard `While` Loop
- 01:21:13 Planning Limits, Brittle Logic, & Mitigation Guardrails
- 01:26:19 Memory Managers: Sliding Windows & Vector DBs
- 01:33:56 Multi-Agent Frameworks & Inter-Agent Communication
- 01:43:08 Deconstructing Production Failures & Error Handling
- 01:52:20 Grounding Data & Prepackaged Frameworks (LangChain, Mastra)
- 02:00:25 Hands-On Lab: Building a Production Personal Assistant

Section 6: Deep Case Study (OpenClaw)
- 02:09:25 OpenClaw Codebase Tour & File Architecture
- 02:14:39 Custom Layouts, Terminal Interfaces, & Concurrency Locks
- 02:30:44 Testing Non-Deterministic Agents & LLM-as-a-Judge Evals
- 02:39:30 Observability, Tracking Performance Metrics, & Optimization Levers
- 02:51:55 Agent Security, Advanced Prompt Assemblies, & Wrap-up

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