Hands-On Agentic AI: Building AI Agents with LlamaIndex

1h 9mIntermediate2025-02-03

Authors

Kumaran Ponnambalam

Working with data for 20+ years

Course details

AI agents are quickly becoming popular for their ability to make decisions autonomously and then act upon them. In this hands-on interactive course for AI and ML engineers, instructor Kumaran Ponnambalam helps you get up to speed with agentic AI capabilities in LlamaIndex, the popular framework that provides several building blocks to quickly create and deploy AI agents with ease. Along the way, explore a variety of different agentic AI use cases with LlamaIndex to understand popular patterns in agentic AI and how to implement them successfully with LlamaIndex.

Learning objectives
Explain the concepts and building blocks for agentic AI in LlamaIndex.
Create an AI agent for reflection, routing, and tool use.
Add query capabilities with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using LlamaIndex.
Perform operations on external systems autonomously.
Build multiagent systems with LlamaIndex.

Skills covered

LlamaIndexNatural Language Processing (NLP)Generative AIArtificial Intelligence for BusinessArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business Analysis and StrategyOpen SourceOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction to the course
02 - Setting up codespaces

1. Agentic Concepts in LlamaIndex

03 - Agentic AI - A review
04 - AI agents in LlamaIndex
05 - Tools and toolspecs in LlamaIndex
06 - Set up LLM and tools for a LlamaIndex agent
07 - Create and execute a LlamaIndex agent

2. Build a Healthcare Assistant Agent

08 - What is ReAct
09 - Healthcare ReAct assistant - Design
10 - Set up Wikipedia tools for healthcare assistant
11 - Set up RAG for medications
12 - Set up and execute the healthcare agent

3. Build a Summarization Agent

13 - Summarization agent design
14 - Create the introspection agent
15 - Execute the introspection agent

4. Workflow Concepts in LlamaIndex

16 - Intro to LlamaIndex workflows
17 - LlamaIndex workflow components
18 - Managing data in LlamaIndex workflows
19 - A simple LlamaIndex workflow - Design
20 - Build and execute a simple LlamaIndex workflow

5. Build a Doctor Scheduling Assistant with Workflows

21 - Doctor scheduling assistant - Design
22 - Set up the doctor database tool
23 - Set up the doctor scheduling tool
24 - Set up custom events for scheduling
25 - Create a custom workflow for scheduling assistant
26 - Create and execute the scheduling agent

6. Multi-agent Systems with LlamaIndex

27 - Multi-agent systems
28 - Multi-agent hospital application - Design
29 - Importing agents in a multi-agent application
30 - Set up the multi-agent application
31 - Execute the multi-agent application

Conclusion

32 - Next steps