From a model to your own agent
Tokens, sampling, memory, senses, then the agent loop. You build each layer before you trust a library.
10 parts · ~47 h
StartLessons
- 00Course: from a model to your own agent — index
- 01Local models from the ground up — a hands-on course
- 02Part 2 — Model internals: feel what happens underneath
- 03Part 3 — Control: how to force a local model to obey
- 04Part 4 — Memory: RAG and context engineering from scratch
- 05Part 5 — Multimodality: an agent that sees, hears and speaks
- 06Part 6 — The Agent Loop from Scratch
- 07Part 7 — Sandbox, Security and Monitoring
- 08Part 8 — Offline optimization: make it fast on your own hardware
- 09Part 9 — The open-source tool landscape
- 10Part 10 — Hybrid: local model + Claude API