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Step into the forest.

23 short videos taking you from your first ConversableAgent to a working multi-agent system. Open-source. Episode by episode.

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23 trails through the forest.

Each episode is a short trail, start at the trailhead, finish with running code. Live trails never close. New ones blaze open as they're cut.

01
3:42

Why Multi-Agent?

Understand what an agent is, and why teams of agents beat monolithic prompts.

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02
5:18

Hello, ConversableAgent

Install AG2, configure a model, ship a working agent in 20 lines.

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03
4:56

Give Your Agent a Tool

Turn any Python function into an agent capability with the @tool decorator.

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04
6:24

Two Agents, One Loop

The two-agent pattern, an executor and a planner pass control back and forth.

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05
5:47

GroupChat: Take Turns

Round-robin orchestration across a team of three or more agents.

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06
6:12

Smart Speaker Selection

Beyond round-robin, let the manager pick the right next speaker for the task.

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07
5:31

Conditional Handoffs

Routing primitives, escalation paths, conditions, and when to break out of the loop.

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08
7:08

Pipelines & Hierarchies

Compose agents into supervised pipelines and hierarchical org structures.

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09
5:02

Pick the Right Pattern

Decision framework: two-agent vs. group vs. hierarchy, when each is the right call.

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10
8:34

Customer Service System

End-to-end build: triage, knowledge lookup, and human handoff across three agents.

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11
8:11

Research Assistant

Web-aware research agent that plans, queries, and synthesizes citations.

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12
7:22

RAG: Knowledge Bases

Wire a vector store into your agent and ground every response in your docs.

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13
6:48

Web Browsing Agents

Headless browsing primitives, agents that read the live web.

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14
7:14

Give it a UI (AG-UI)

Wrap any agent in a streaming chat UI with tool traces and citations.

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15
7:39

Connect to Tools (MCP)

Plug into the Model Context Protocol, Slack, GitHub, Notion, anything.

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16
6:05

Observability

See what your agents actually do, traces, costs, and replay.

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17
6:28

Safe Code Execution

Sandboxes, allow-lists, and secrets hygiene for agents that run code.

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18
6:51

Testing Agents

Eval harnesses, golden traces, regression testing for non-deterministic systems.

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19
5:09

Cost Control

Token budgets, model routing, caching that actually moves the bill.

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20
8:47

Deploy to Production

Notebook → deployed service. Packaging, scaling, and health checks.

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21
6:33

Parallel Agents

Run agents in parallel, score outputs, pick the best, fault tolerance for LLM calls.

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22
7:21

Tree of Thoughts

Make agents think harder, branching reasoning and search-driven planning.

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23
4:58

What's Next

The AG2 roadmap and where to take your skills from here.

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