Build AI Agents and Chatbots with LangGraph

Course details

Conversational chatbots are growing in popularity, and nearly every product or service supports one today. Agentic AI provides capabilities that can provide chatbots with higher levels of autonomy and value. In this course, instructor Kumaran Ponnambalam helps you to apply agentic AI to build sophisticated chatbots that can provide the next generation of self-service. Kumaran takes you through the step-by-step process of building a chatbot with agentic capabilities using LangChain and LangGraph, and discusses best practices for building agentic chatbots.

Learning objectives
Explain the concepts and building blocks for an agentic AI chatbot.
Create a basic chatbot with LangChain and add RAG capabilities to it.
Enable agentic AI capabilities in a chatbot for reflection, planning, and tool use.
Integrate multiple AI agents behind a chatbot for sophisticated conversations.
Apply best practices for creating agentic AI chatbots in their work.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction to the course
02 - Setting up GitHub Codespaces

1. Concepts Review

03 - AI chatbots - A review
04 - Agentic AI - A review
05 - Agentic chatbots
06 - State and memory in chatbots
07 - LangGraph for agentic AI

2. Create a Basic ReAct Agent

08 - What is ReAct
09 - Basic ReAct agent design
10 - Adding function tools for ReAct agent
11 - Create a basic ReAct agent
12 - Execute the basic ReAct agent
13 - Debugging agents in Langchain

3. Build a Product Q&A Chatbot

14 - Product Q&A chatbot design
15 - Add a function tool to the product Q&A chatbot
16 - Add a retriever tool to the product Q&A chatbot
17 - Set up the product Q&A chatbot
18 - Execute the product Q&A chatbot

4. Custom Agents and Chatbots with LangGraph

19 - LangGraph concepts
20 - LangGraph orders agent and chatbot design
21 - Set up tools for the orders agent
22 - Set up the LangGraph orders agent
23 - Set up and execute the LangGraph chatbot

5. Reflection-Based LangGraph Agents

24 - Reflection-based summary agent - Design
25 - Engineer prompts for reflection
26 - Set up the summarize-and-review agent with LangGraph
27 - Set up the summarize-and-review chatbot with LangGraph
28 - Execute the summarize-and-review chatbot

6. Multi-agent Systems with LangGraph

29 - Multi-agent systems
30 - Routing agent design in LangGraph
31 - Using agents as LangGraph nodes
32 - Set up the routing agent and chatbot in LangGraph
33 - Execute the routing chatbot in LangGraph

Conclusion

34 - Next steps