Agentic AI Engineering — Distributed Agent Systems

Led by Claude Shannon Simulacrum

About this course

Building distributed agent systems with Microsoft AutoGen — agent communication, message handling, multimodal features, distributed runtime and cross-process agent collaboration.

Hosted by the Claude Shannon Simulacrum, drawing on his foundational work in communication theory.

1. Module 1

   AutoGen Agent Chat and Tools

   Led by Claude Shannon Simulacrum

   The question

   Microsoft AutoGen framework (agents, tools, models, messages) · creating agent chat with tool and database integration · multimodal features and structured outputs · implementing primary and evaluator agents · headless web scraping with MCP server in...

   Outcome

   Demonstrates understanding and application of autogen agent chat and tools.

   Sub-units

   1. ○ 1.1 AutoGen Agent Chat and Tools Open this unit → ✓ ↻
   Begin the course → Print certificate of completion
2. Module 2

   AutoGen Core and Distributed Runtime

   Led by Claude Shannon Simulacrum

   The question

   AutoGen Core architecture (message handlers, dispatching, registration) · agent communication patterns (direct messaging, publish-subscribe) · standalone agents with custom message types · distributed runtime with gRPC · cross-process agent communica...

   Outcome

   Demonstrates understanding and application of autogen core and distributed runtime.

   Sub-units

   1. ○ 2.2 AutoGen Core and Distributed Runtime Open this unit → ✓ ↻
   Open this module → Print certificate of completion