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Building with Agentic Platforms, a free technology course on Tomo

Building with Agentic Platforms

Move beyond basic prompting into full autonomous agent architectures. Learn how to bind tools, manage stateful graphs, orchestrate multi-agent swarms, and implement robust production guardrails.

Like Duolingo, but for Building with Agentic Platforms. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

24 levels across 4 sections, about 48 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Making Agents Act; State, Memory, and Control Flow; Multi-Agent Orchestration; and Production Reliability and Governance. It assumes you already know the basics.

24 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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Building with Agentic Platforms
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24
Levels
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Sections
5
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What you'll learn

Key ideas in Building with Agentic Platforms

  • The model first generates a thought trace explaining its intended goal
  • The runtime dispatches the chosen action to an external tool
  • Tool outputs return to the prompt context as observations for the next step
  • Schemas enforce strict types so runtimes can validate payloads automatically
  • Constrained decoding binds model generation directly to allowed function signatures
  • Free-text requests frequently omit required parameters or scramble data types
  • A hard iteration ceiling forcibly halts recurring steps when goals stall
  • Stop tokens halt generation the moment a tool payload is complete
  • Budget and timeout guards terminate runaway loops independent of model output
  • Injecting raw error logs lets the model inspect its exact mistake
  • Schema error observations instruct the model to correct malformed arguments
  • Empty return payloads signal that search parameters were too restrictive
  • Deterministic handlers intercept unknown tool names before execution
  • Fallback routines append error notices without crashing the main loop
  • Pre-execution schema checks shield backend services from corrupted inputs
  • LLMs evaluate docstrings and parameter descriptions to decide if a tool satisfies the user query.
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Building with Agentic Platforms the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Inside the Agent Loop

When an agent decides to run a tool, who actually executes the command?

Get it right to open this lesson and 23 more in the app.

Course map

How to learn Building with Agentic Platforms, step by step

Go in order. 24 short levels across 4 sections, about 48 minutes in all, five minutes a day.

  1. 1

    Making Agents Act

    • The Core Agent Loop
    • Tool Design and Schema Contracts
  2. 2

    State, Memory, and Control Flow

    • State Machines and Graph Execution
    • Tiered Memory Architectures
  3. 3

    Multi-Agent Orchestration

    • Hierarchies and Collaboration Patterns
    • Dynamic Routing and Handoffs
  4. 4

    Production Reliability and Governance

    • Human-in-the-Loop and Sandboxing
    • Tracing and Trajectory Evaluation

4 sections · 8 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

Questions

Questions about Building with Agentic Platforms

  1. How do I learn Building with Agentic Platforms?

    Go in order: start with Making Agents Act, then State, Memory, and Control Flow, then Multi-Agent Orchestration, then Production Reliability and Governance. On Tomo that's 24 short levels, about 48 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.

  2. Is there a Duolingo-style app for Building with Agentic Platforms?

    Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. Building with Agentic Platforms is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.

  3. Is the Building with Agentic Platforms course free?

    Yes. Building with Agentic Platforms is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.

  4. How long does it take to learn Building with Agentic Platforms?

    24 levels across 4 sections, about 48 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.

  5. Do I need any background to start Building with Agentic Platforms?

    No. It's pitched at an intermediate level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.

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