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You Just Built an AI Agent

You've learned how agents think and how to build intelligence that scales. The difference between chatting with AI and building real automation is everything you practiced in this course: structured prompts, conditional logic, tool selection, and trust boundaries.

The Transformation

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SKILLS UNLOCKED

Chapters 1-3: Sophisticated Prompting

  • Handle complexity, context, and edge cases
  • Extract structured data
  • Reason conditionally across multiple documents

Chapters 4-5: Agent Architecture

  • Classification systems that work at scale
  • Batch processing hundreds of items with one prompt
  • Tool selection and action planning
  • Autonomous vs. approval-required decisions
  • Risk assessment for automation

What We Didn't Cover: The Production Challenges

You now know how to design intelligent agent logic. But building production agents requires solving infrastructure challenges we simplified in this course:

Data access: How does the agent read your emails? Connect to APIs, manage permissions, handle authentication
Error handling: What happens when the agent misclassifies? Build feedback loops, set confidence thresholds
Context management: What if an email references 5 previous emails? Track conversation history, manage context windows
Tool reliability: What if creating a ticket fails? Implement retry logic, fallback actions, error alerting
Multiple data sources: Pull context from CRM, support history, and billing systems simultaneously
Cost optimization: Running prompts on 1,000 emails/day gets expensive fast

This is why companies build agent platforms instead of duct-taping prompts together.

What's Next

You've mastered prompting. You know how agents think. You can design intelligent automation. Now it's time to build something real.

Cotera: Agent Infrastructure Built for Production

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We handle the infrastructure so you can focus on the intelligence:

✓Connect directly to your data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery)
✓Deploy agent workflows that process unlimited data
✓Integrate with 100+ tools (Slack, Linear, Salesforce, Zendesk)
✓Automatic cost optimization and error handling
✓Production-grade monitoring and security
✓Built-in approval workflows for high-stakes actions
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Your agent logic + Cotera's platform = Automation that actually ships