AIAcademy collection · Hands-on building

Builder agent stack

A focused path for learners who want to build useful agents: protocols, orchestration, evaluation, observability, and when not to turn a workflow into an agent.

120 minutes · 2 tracks · 4 readings · 5 resources

Tracks

• Building with AI
• Frontiers

Readings

• MCP, A2A, Skills: the agent protocol stack — AIAcademy
• Multi-agent organizations: more capable, less aligned — AIAcademy
• The delegation gap — AIAcademy
• Plan mode vs per-action approval — AIAcademy

Resources

• LangGraph — LangChain
• Microsoft Agent Framework — Microsoft
• Vercel AI SDK — Vercel
• Langfuse — Langfuse
• MCP Server Registry — Anthropic / Open Standard

Key questions

• Which workflows need a graph, and which need a simpler tool call?
• What should an agent log so a human can debug and trust it?
• Where should approvals interrupt autonomous work?