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AI Agents Course

Beginner 15 hours English Course CertificateFREE
SkillsAI agentssmolagentsLlamaIndexLangGraphAgentic RAGTool callingHugging Face Hub

Is this course right for you?

Our take
Hugging Face's free, hands-on AI Agents course — arguably the strongest no-cost way to get genuinely practical with agents.

Good for: Beginners who want a free, hands-on, multi-framework start with AI agents.

Skip if: You want a polished paid curriculum or deep single-framework production focus.

You build with three real libraries — smolagents, LlamaIndex and LangGraph — work through an agentic-RAG use case and a final project, share your agents on the Hub, and can enter a leaderboard challenge. That multi-framework, build-and-share approach is what makes it stick: you finish with working agents and a public trail of them, not just notes. And everything, the certificate included, is free.

It's the wrong fit if you want a polished paid curriculum or a deep single-framework production focus. You may spend a little on model API calls for some projects. The free certificate signals hands-on agent skill, though the agents you build and share carry the most weight of all (as of 2026).

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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.

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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.

Frequently asked questions

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.

It runs in weekly units of a few hours each with no deadlines, so most learners finish over a few weeks at their own pace.
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