AI Agent Development Roadmap — Step-by-step Learning Path

The AI Agent Development roadmap

1. AI Agent Fundamentals — beginner
2. Tool Use and Function Calling for Agents — beginner
   • Tool Use Fundamentals — beginner
   • Designing Tool Interfaces for Agents — beginner
   • Tool Selection and Routing — beginner
   • Chaining Multiple Tool Calls — beginner
   • Handling Tool Call Failures — beginner
3. Planning and Reasoning Strategies — beginner
   • Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Agents — beginner
   • ReAct and Reasoning-Action Patterns — beginner
   • Task Decomposition — beginner
   • Planning Under Uncertainty — beginner
   • Self-Reflection and Self-Correction — beginner
4. Agent Loops and Control Flow — beginner
   • Designing the Core Agent Loop — beginner
   • Termination Conditions for Agents — beginner
   • Handling Infinite Loops and Runaway Agents — beginner
   • State Management Across Agent Steps — beginner
   • Interrupting and Resuming Agent Execution — beginner
5. Single-Agent Architectures — beginner
   • Single-Agent Architecture Patterns — beginner
   • ReAct Agents in Practice — beginner
   • Plan-and-Execute Agents — beginner
   • Reflexion and Self-Improving Agents — beginner
   • Choosing an Agent Architecture for a Task — beginner
   • Building a Single-Agent Prototype — beginner
6. Multi-Agent Systems — beginner
   • Multi-Agent System Fundamentals — beginner
   • Agent Communication Protocols — beginner
   • Orchestrator-Worker Patterns — beginner
   • Coordinating Competing or Collaborating Agents — beginner
   • Debugging Multi-Agent Systems — beginner
7. Agent Memory Architectures — beginner
   • Memory Requirements for Agents — beginner
   • Working Memory vs Long-Term Memory — beginner
   • Vector-Based Memory for Agents — beginner
   • Episodic Memory and Task History — beginner
   • Memory Pruning and Forgetting Strategies — beginner
8. Designing Tools for Agents — beginner
   • Read-Only vs Write/Action Tools — beginner
   • Composable vs Monolithic Tools — beginner
   • Sandboxing Agent Actions — beginner
   • Versioning and Evolving Agent Tools — beginner
   • Documenting Tools for Reliable Model Use — beginner
9. Agent Orchestration Frameworks — beginner
   • Agent Orchestration Framework Landscape — beginner
   • Graph-Based Agent Orchestration — beginner
   • Event-Driven Agent Architectures — beginner
   • Choosing an Orchestration Approach — beginner
   • Building Custom Orchestration Logic — beginner
   • Case Study: Orchestrating a Multi-Step Agent Workflow — beginner
10. Guardrails and Safety for Agents — beginner
    • Guardrails Fundamentals for Agents — beginner
    • Action Allowlists and Permission Systems — beginner
    • Rate Limiting and Resource Constraints for Agents — beginner
    • Content and Output Guardrails — beginner
    • Testing Guardrail Effectiveness — beginner
11. Human-in-the-Loop Agent Design — beginner
    • Human-in-the-Loop Design Patterns — beginner
    • Approval Workflows for Agent Actions — beginner
    • Confidence-Based Escalation — beginner
    • Designing Review Interfaces for Agent Output — beginner
    • Balancing Autonomy with Oversight — beginner
12. Evaluating Agent Performance — beginner
    • Evaluating Agent Task Success — beginner
    • Evaluating Multi-Step Agent Reliability — beginner
    • Building Agent Evaluation Benchmarks — beginner
    • Simulated Environments for Agent Testing — beginner
    • Comparing Agent Architectures Empirically — beginner
13. Long-Running and Autonomous Agents — beginner
    • Long-Running Agent Fundamentals — beginner
    • Checkpointing Agent State — beginner
    • Asynchronous and Background Agent Execution — beginner
    • Scheduling and Triggering Autonomous Agents — beginner
    • Cost Management for Long-Running Agents — beginner
    • Failure Recovery for Long-Running Tasks — beginner
14. Agent Observability and Debugging — beginner
    • Observability Fundamentals for Agents — beginner
    • Tracing Agent Decision Paths — beginner
    • Building Agent Debugging Tools — beginner
    • Monitoring Agent Performance in Production — beginner
    • Alerting on Anomalous Agent Behavior — beginner
15. Deploying Agents to Production — beginner
    • Deploying Agents to Production — beginner
    • Scaling Agent Workloads — beginner
    • Versioning Agents in Production — beginner
    • Rollback Strategies for Agent Systems — beginner
    • Infrastructure Considerations for Agent Systems — beginner
16. Domain-Specific Agent Applications — beginner
    • Coding Agents — beginner
    • Customer Support Agents — beginner
    • Research and Data Analysis Agents — beginner
    • Browser and Computer-Use Agents — beginner
    • Workflow Automation Agents — beginner
17. Career and Capstone — advanced

Other AI Engineering / LLM & Agent Development roadmaps

• LLM Application Development roadmap
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) & Vector Databases roadmap
• Fine-Tuning & Model Customization roadmap
• LLMOps & AI Infrastructure roadmap
• Prompt Engineering & Evaluation roadmap