Build an AI Agent From Scratch in Python - Tutorial for Beginners

Thanks to Microsoft for sponsoring this video! Submit your #CodingWithCopilot story for a chance to be featured in an upcoming video! In this video, you'll learn how to build an AI agent from scratch in Python. I'll walk you through everything step-by-step. This will be very beginner friendly, and you'll learn how to make something quite interesting in Python with some popular frameworks like LangChain. I'll show you how to use various LLMs like Claude or GPT, how you can give the agent access to various tools, and how you can structure the output of the agent so you can use it in your code. 🎞 Video Resources 🎞 Code in this video: https://github.com/techwithtim/PythonAIAgentFromScratch Learn Python Virtual Environments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21OR1OPC9A Get Your Anthropic API Key: https://console.anthropic.com/settings/keys Get Your OpenAI API Key: https://platform.openai.com/api-keys ⏳ Timestamps ⏳ 00:00 | Overview 00:35 | Agent Demo 01:38 | Setup/Requirements 06:53 | Basic Code Setup/Imports 08:37 | Using Claude or GPT 10:00 | Getting Your API Key 11:32 | Basic LLM Functionality 12:43 | Structured Output/Models 15:42 | Prompt Templates 17:33 | Creating & Running the Agent 21:00 | Output Parsing 23:39 | Adding Prebuilt Tools 30:48 | Custom Tool Calling Hashtags #CodingWithCopilot #Sponsored