Build a Reasoning & Workflow Agent, Socratic

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intermediate Python • basic understanding of agent workflows
skills learned
Agent planning • custom tool creation • workflow orchestration
Jeremie Charlet
1 week · 6-8 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE
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In the third liveProject, you’ll upgrade the capabilities of the RAG-enhanced chatbot, turning it into a multi-use-case agent using advanced reasoning, custom tools, and the ReAct framework. First, you’ll build a robust prompt chain with reasoning to classify queries and route them to the right path. Next, you’ll add practical tools and workflows with LangGraph to handle out-of-scope cases, capture user info, and blend retrieval with classification. Finally, unify everything into an agentic system that can choose tools, search knowledge, collect details, escalate when needed, and keep conversations natural.

This project is a part of the series From Prompts to an Agentic System.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

prerequisites

This liveProject is for intermediate Python programmers ready to build sophisticated AI agents. You should be comfortable with Python scripting and eager to learn advanced prompt engineering, custom tool development, and agent frameworks.


TOOLS
  • Intermediate Python
  • Basics of Jupyter Notebook
  • Basics of the OpenAI API or Langchai
TECHNIQUES
  • Basics of text processing
  • Basics of file management
  • Basics of data structures
  • Basics of prompt engineering
  • Basics of API Integration
  • Basics of Retrieval Augmented Generation

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