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One hands-on course per concept — short lessons, real mechanics, instant-feedback quizzes.
A free, practitioner's course platform built on the agentpatterns.ai corpus. Start with Context Engineering; more courses are landing.
19 lessons Context Engineering Shape what your agent sees — attention, caching, compression, retrieval, and drift. The smallest set of high-signal tokens. Start → 16 lessons Harness Engineering Design the agent loop itself — tools, hooks, sub-agents, permissions, and verification gates. Start → 12 lessons Prompt Engineering Instructions that actually get followed — altitude, polarity, negative space, and the compliance ceiling. Start → 12 lessons Tool Engineering Tools agents use well — schema design, token efficiency, error output, and result shaping. Start → 6 lessons MCP Server Design Build Model Context Protocol servers agents can drive safely and discover on demand. Start → 15 lessons Security The lethal trifecta, prompt injection, secrets handling, sandboxing, and egress control. Start → 7 lessons Observability See what your agent did — tracing, debugging, event sourcing, and evals. Start → 6 lessons GEO Generative Engine Optimization — getting your content found and cited by AI agents. Start →