Hugging Face's free, hands-on AI Agents course — arguably the strongest no-cost way to get genuinely practical with agents. You build with three real libraries (smolagents, LlamaIndex, LangGraph), do an agentic-RAG use case and a final project, share agents on the Hub, and can enter a leaderboard challenge. Everything, including the certificate, is free.
Good for: Beginners who want a free, hands-on, multi-framework start with AI agents.
Less suitable if: You want a polished paid curriculum or deep single-framework production focus.
Skills you'll gain
AI agentssmolagentsLlamaIndexLangGraphAgentic RAGTool callingHugging Face Hub
Realistic time: Weekly units of a few hours each; fully self-paced, no deadlines
About this course
The Hugging Face AI Agents Course teaches agents from the ground up: the theory, then hands-on building with three real libraries — smolagents, LlamaIndex and LangGraph — a unit on agentic RAG, and a final project. You share your agents on the Hugging Face Hub and can enter a leaderboard challenge against other learners' agents.
What you'll learn
Understand AI agents in theory and practice
Build agents with smolagents, LlamaIndex and LangGraph
Implement an agentic RAG use case
Deploy and share agents on the Hugging Face Hub
Complete a final agent project and leaderboard challenge
This course includes
15h
On-demand video
Yes
Certificate
Yes
Mobile access
English
Language
What it costs
Completely free — course, projects and certificate. You may spend a little on model API calls for some projects.
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Free (certificate included)
Duration
15 hrs
Level
Beginner
Certificate
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AI Engineer Core Track: LLM Engineering, RAG, QLoRA, Agents
A free Hugging Face certificate (Fundamentals + full Certificate of Completion). It signals hands-on agent skill; the agents you build and share on the Hub carry the most weight.
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Hugging Face instructor
Hugging Face is the open-source AI platform behind the Transformers library and the Hub. Its free courses are built by its team and community and are known for being practical and code-first.
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Hugging Face
The open-source AI platform (models, datasets, Spaces) whose free, hands-on courses teach NLP, LLMs, and AI agents with real code and free certificates.
If you want a free, genuinely hands-on start with agents, yes — you build across smolagents, LlamaIndex and LangGraph and finish real projects, all free including the certificate.
smolagents, LlamaIndex and LangGraph, plus an agentic-RAG unit and a final project with a leaderboard challenge.
No — it starts from the basics. Some Python helps, but no prior agent experience is needed.
Yes — both the Fundamentals certificate and the full Certificate of Completion are free.