--- title: "ai-agents-for-beginners" type: "tool" slug: "microsoft-ai-agents-for-beginners" canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/microsoft-ai-agents-for-beginners" github_url: "https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners" homepage_url: "https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginners" stars: 68795 forks: 22808 primary_language: "Jupyter Notebook" license: "MIT" categories: ["ai-agents"] tags: ["agentic-framework", "agentic-ai", "ai-agents-framework", "agentic-rag"] updated_at: "2026-07-07T19:00:55.452388+00:00" --- # ai-agents-for-beginners > 12 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents A course teaching everything needed to start building AI Agents, with multi-language support. ## Facts - Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners - Homepage: https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginners - Stars: 68,795 · Forks: 22,808 · Open issues: 9 · Watchers: 542 - Primary language: Jupyter Notebook - License: MIT - Last pushed: 2026-07-06T23:27:19+00:00 ## Categories - [AI Agents](/categories/ai-agents.md) ## Tags agentic-framework, agentic-ai, ai-agents-framework, agentic-rag ## Related tools - [ECC](/tools/affaan-m-ecc.md) - The agent harness performance optimization system (★ 226,962) - [hermes-agent](/tools/nousresearch-hermes-agent.md) - The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research (★ 210,880) - [AutoGPT](/tools/significant-gravitas-autogpt.md) - AutoGPT: Build, Deploy, and Run AI Agents (★ 185,417) - [ollama](/tools/ollama-ollama.md) - Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.1, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models. 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(★ 141,211) ## README (excerpt) ```text # AI Agents for Beginners - A Course ## A course teaching everything you need to know to start building AI Agents ### 🌐 Multi-Language Support #### Supported via GitHub Action (Automated & Always Up-to-Date) [Arabic](./translations/ar/README.md) | [Bengali](./translations/bn/README.md) | [Bulgarian](./translations/bg/README.md) | [Burmese (Myanmar)](./translations/my/README.md) | [Chinese (Simplified)](./translations/zh-CN/README.md) | [Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong)](./translations/zh-HK/README.md) | [Chinese (Traditional, Macau)](./translations/zh-MO/README.md) | [Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)](./translations/zh-TW/README.md) | [Croatian](./translations/hr/README.md) | [Czech](./translations/cs/README.md) | [Danish](./translations/da/README.md) | [Dutch](./translations/nl/README.md) | [Estonian](./translations/et/README.md) | [Finnish](./translations/fi/README.md) | [French](./translations/fr/README.md) | [German](./translations/de/README.md) | [Greek](./translations/el/README.md) | [Hebrew](./translations/he/README.md) | [Hindi](./translations/hi/README.md) | [Hungarian](./translations/hu/README.md) | [Indonesian](./translations/id/README.md) | [Italian](./translations/it/README.md) | [Japanese](./translations/ja/README.md) | [Kannada](./translations/kn/README.md) | [Khmer](./translations/km/README.md) | [Korean](./translations/ko/README.md) | [Lithuanian](./translations/lt/README.md) | [Malay](./translations/ms/README.md) | [Malayalam](./translations/ml/README.md) | [Marathi](./translations/mr/README.md) | [Nepali](./translations/ne/README.md) | [Nigerian Pidgin](./translations/pcm/README.md) | [Norwegian](./translations/no/README.md) | [Persian (Farsi)](./translations/fa/README.md) | [Polish](./translations/pl/README.md) | [Portuguese (Brazil)](./translations/pt-BR/README.md) | [Portuguese (Portugal)](./translations/pt-PT/README.md) | [Punjabi (Gurmukhi)](./translations/pa/README.md) | [Romanian](./translations/ro/README.md) | [Russian](./translations/ru/README.md) | [Serbian (Cyrillic)](./translations/sr/README.md) | [Slovak](./translations/sk/README.md) | [Slovenian](./translations/sl/README.md) | [Spanish](./translations/es/README.md) | [Swahili](./translations/sw/README.md) | [Swedish](./translations/sv/README.md) | [Tagalog (Filipino)](./translations/tl/README.md) | [Tamil](./translations/ta/README.md) | [Telugu](./translations/te/README.md) | [Thai](./translations/th/README.md) | [Turkish](./translations/tr/README.md) | [Ukrainian](./translations/uk/README.md) | [Urdu](./translations/ur/README.md) | [Vietnamese](./translations/vi/README.md) > **Prefer to Clone Locally?** > > This repository includes 50+ language translations which significantly increases the download size. To clone without translations, use sparse checkout: > > **Bash / macOS / Linux:** > ```bash > git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners.git > cd ai-agents-for-beginners > git sparse-checkout set --no-cone '/*' '!translations' '!translated_images' > ``` > > **CMD (Windows):** > ```cmd > git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners.git > cd ai-agents-for-beginners > git sparse-checkout set --no-cone "/*" "!translations" "!translated_images" > ``` > > This gives you everything you need to complete the course with a much faster download. **If you wish to have additional translation languages supported, they are listed [here](https://github.com/Azure/co-op-translator/blob/main/getting_started/supported-languages.md).** ## 🌱 Getting Started This course has lessons covering the fundamentals of building AI Agents. Each lesson covers its own topic so start wherever you like! There is multi-language support for this course. Go to our [available languages here](#-multi-language-support). If this is your first time building with Generative AI models, check out our [Generative AI For Beginners](https://aka.ms/genai-beginners) course, w ``` --- **Machine-readable endpoints** - JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/microsoft-ai-agents-for-beginners`](/api/graphcanon/tools/microsoft-ai-agents-for-beginners) - LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) - Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt) _GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_