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Prepare AI Agents for Responsible Deployment

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Prepare AI Agents for Responsible Deployment

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

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8 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

8 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Define measurable success criteria and test cases, then evaluate an agent for accuracy, reliability, and safety

  • Identify failures such as hallucination, tool misuse, and excessive autonomy, and apply safeguards like least-privilege access and human approval

  • Improve an agent by debugging with logs and traces, refining its instructions and logic, and retesting

  • Prepare an agent for responsible use by documenting its purpose, boundaries, risks, monitoring, and a readiness recommendation

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November 2026

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This course is part of the AI Agents for Dummies Specialization
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There are 5 modules in this course

In this module, you will shift from building agents to evaluating them. You will learn why evaluation is a distinct, necessary phase after any agent is built, and the dimensions used to judge agent performance: task completion, accuracy, groundedness, reliability, cost, latency, usability, and safety. You will write measurable success criteria for an agent before testing it, build a small, representative test set, and set baseline expectations and acceptance thresholds it must meet. In a guided dialogue and a hands-on activity, you turn a vague goal into a measurable criterion and spot what a flawed plan lacks. By the end, you will be ready to design a complete evaluation plan for your own agent, or the supplied sample agent.

What's included

3 videos4 readings3 assignments1 plugin

In this module, you will put your Module 1 test set to work. You will test an agent against its happy path first, then design edge cases, adversarial inputs, and simulated tool failures or incomplete data. You will also learn why repeatability matters: an agent that passes once but fails on a repeat run isn't reliable. In a role play, you will explain a repeatability problem to an operations lead. In the module's hands-on lab, you will run a structured test cycle on your existing agent (or the supplied sample agent), recording inputs, outputs, and pass/fail results as evidence. By the end of this module, you will have documented test results that become the baseline for your capstone.

What's included

2 videos5 readings4 assignments

In this module, you will focus on the risks that make an otherwise functional agent unsafe to rely on. You will apply least-privilege permission and data-privacy practices, recognize what prompt injection looks like, and learn to spot sensitive-data exposure before it becomes a problem. In a scenario-based activity, you right-size an agent's access, and in a role play, you probe a workflow for prompt injection and over-automation risk. You will also learn to design human-in-the-loop approval points, deciding which actions run automatically, where approval belongs, and what the agent does when no one responds. By the end of this module, you will be able to evaluate a scenario for safety and security risk and recommend a concrete mitigation.

What's included

1 video6 readings4 assignments2 plugins

In this module, you will turn your Module 2 test results into action. You will learn to read logs and traces to debug a failure back to its root cause, practicing in a guided dialogue, then refine instructions and workflow logic to fix what's broken. In the module's hands-on lab, you will implement at least two improvements to your Course 2 agent (or the supplied sample agent) and rerun the relevant tests to confirm they worked, comparing before-and-after results. The module closes with what to monitor after release and how to manage changes responsibly. By the end of this module, you will have documented, tested evidence of improvement to carry into your capstone.

What's included

1 video6 readings3 assignments

In this final module, you will consolidate everything from this course into one Capstone Deployment Brief for your Course 2 agent (or the supplied sample agent). Part 1 consolidates your evaluation criteria, test cases, acceptance thresholds, baseline results, repeatability evidence, and identified risks from Modules 1 and 2, plus a workflow diagram. Part 2 consolidates the improvements, retest evidence, guardrails, data and permission boundaries, and human-approval points developed in Modules 3 and 4 and uses it to produce a deployment-readiness recommendation covering monitoring and change management. Parts 1 and 2 are submitted together. The module then closes with a course summary, glossary, a self-review checklist, and a wrap-up marking the end of the AI Agents for Dummies specialization.

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8 readings2 assignments

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