# ai-agents-for-beginners: 12 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents

<https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners>

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## What Jamie wrote

Very thorough reference for all things building agents.

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- Repository: microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners: 18 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents
- About the repository: Jupyter Notebook, 77,764 stars, MIT, last push October 23, 2026
- Homepage: <https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginners>

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