DevOps / Platform Engineer

The security and production section is critical — it covers monitoring, guardrails, and prompt injection defence for AI systems you'll operate.

• [ ] Foundations (2 lessons)
• [ ] How Models Decide (2 lessons)
• [ ] Advanced Patterns (3 lessons)
• [ ] Security and Production (3 lessons)

Context windows are memory. Tool calls are I/O. This course teaches you the systems model that maps to infrastructure concepts you already know.

• [ ] Tokens and Inference (2 lessons)
• [ ] The Real Size of Your Context Window (4 lessons)
• [ ] Anatomy of the Messages Array (5 lessons)
• [ ] Dynamic Allocation: Tool Calling (2 lessons)
• [ ] The Ralph Wiggum Loop (3 lessons)
• [ ] Sub-Agents: Managed Runtimes for AI (3 lessons)
• [ ] Message Passing: The Erlang OTP of AI (3 lessons)
• [ ] Context Management Strategies (3 lessons)

certification: Certified Context Engineer

Build what you're deploying. Understanding agent internals helps you debug production issues, set resource limits, and design health checks.

• [ ] Getting Started (2 lessons)
• [ ] The Conversation Loop (2 lessons)
• [ ] Adding Tools (3 lessons)
• [ ] Making It Real (3 lessons)

certification: Certified AI Agent Builder