AI Agents and Skills.

Build practical AI agents and reusable skills that help teams complete repeatable work.

Course promise

What you will be able to do.

By the end of this course, participants will build AI agents and reusable skills that automate complex tasks and improve team productivity.

This is a build-first workshop rather than traditional software training. Participants leave with agent briefs, reusable skills, and safeguards they can apply to real work today.

Teach teams when agents are appropriate, how to design them, and how to operate them safely.

Platforms / technology

ChatGPT
Claude

Fit

Who this class is for.

Audience

Power users
AI champions
Operations leaders
Teams ready to move beyond prompt-by-prompt work

Not a fit if

Participants who need basic AI fluency first.
Developers focused specifically on software engineering workflows.

Prerequisites

AI 201 - AI Instructions or equivalent experience creating structured AI instructions.

Common pain point

Teams want AI to do more complex work but do not yet have structure, boundaries, or repeatable skills.

Outcomes

What you will learn.

Learning outcomes

Distinguish workflows from agents.
Identify appropriate agent use cases.
Understand tool use and operational boundaries.
Design agent instructions and safeguards.
Evaluate agent behavior and risk.

What teams walk away with

Design agent responsibilities and boundaries.
Create reusable skills for common work.
Improve team productivity with safer AI delegation.

Agenda

Topics and hands-on work.

Topics

Agent versus workflow decision criteria.
Agent design patterns.
Tool use.
Memory and context.
Safety, permissions, and monitoring.
Operational ownership.
Reusable skills for business processes.

Hands-on exercises

Evaluate whether a use case needs an agent.
Draft an agent design brief.
Define safeguards and success measures.
Create or adapt a reusable skill for a business task.

Use cases

Where this class shows up at work.

Meeting preparation.
Report generation.
Research briefs.
Standard operating procedures.
Team knowledge assistants.

Recommended next course

Class schedule

Upcoming AI 301 classes

Seats are held for 10 minutes once you start checkout. Availability comes from LOOP — when fewer than five seats remain, we show Few seats instead of an exact count. You can register through the end of the class day (Central Time). Past classes appear on the calendar only (grayed out). Full classes cannot be registered online.

Date	Class	Location	Price	Status	Register
September 1, 2026	AI 301 - AI Agents & Skills	In person	$1,500	Open
September 29, 2026	AI 301 - AI Agents & Skills	WECC	$1,500	Open