LABINTERMEDIATE

Build Your First Agent

Create an AI agent with custom tools: calculator, file operations, and web search. Implement the ReAct pattern with basic error handling.

60 minutes
ai-infrastructure/agents
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Lab Overview

This hands-on lab teaches you to build your first LangChain agent with custom tools.

You'll learn to:

  • Create custom tools using the @tool decorator
  • Build a ReAct agent that reasons about tool usage
  • Implement multiple tools (calculator, file operations, search)
  • Add error handling for robust agent operation

This lab establishes the foundation for building infrastructure agents.

Prerequisites

llm-api-integration

python-fundamentals

Technologies Covered

agentslangchaintoolsreactpythonollama

Part of a Course

This lab is part of the AI Agents and Agentic Workflows course

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