AI Agents Academy
Systems that decide, act and recover on their own.
Tool use, planning loops, memory and the hard part — failure. You'll build agents that know when to stop, when to ask, and how to leave the world in a consistent state when a step goes wrong.
Duration
7 weeks
Content
56 hours
Lessons
62
Level
Advanced
Students
864
Certified
502
RIVA mentors you through every lesson, lab and assessment in this academy — and knows where you got stuck last time.
What you’ll be able to do
Written as capabilities, not topics. If you can’t do these at the end, the academy didn’t work.
- Design a tool surface an agent can actually use correctly
- Bound a planning loop so it terminates and stays affordable
- Add human-in-the-loop approval at the steps that deserve it
- Make partial failure recoverable rather than corrupting
Skills you'll build
Tools you'll use
5 modules · 20 lessons
About 12 hours of content. Expand a module to see every lesson.
01What makes an agentThe loop, and the three ways it goes wrong.4 lessons · 1h
- VideoLoop, tools, memory, termination16 min
- VideoFailure mode one: it never stops14 min
- VideoFailure modes two and three: wrong tool, silent corruption17 min
- LabLab: instrument an agent loop28 min
02Tool designA tool surface the model can use correctly on the first try.5 lessons · 2h
- VideoNaming, descriptions and the schema as documentationThe description is a prompt. Write it like one.18 min
- VideoIdempotency and safe retries16 min
- VideoErrors the model can recover from15 min
- LabLab: refactor a bad tool surface35 min
- QuizCheckpoint quiz10 min
03Planning and memoryHolding state across a run that takes longer than a request.4 lessons · 2h
- VideoReAct, plan-and-execute, and reflection20 min
- VideoShort-term context vs. durable memory18 min
- VideoBudgeting steps, tokens and wall-clock16 min
- LabLab: a planner with a hard step budget38 min
04Humans in the loopApproval at the steps that deserve it, and nowhere else.4 lessons · 1h
- VideoChoosing the interrupt pointsApproving everything is the same as approving nothing.15 min
- VideoPresenting a decision a human can actually make17 min
- VideoAudit trails and replay14 min
- LabLab: approval gate on a destructive tool32 min
05CapstoneAn operations agent with real tools and real guardrails.3 lessons · 7h
- VideoArchitecture review16 min
- LiveLive build session with a mentor60 min
- ProjectCapstone: supervised operations agentAssessed on recovery behaviour under injected failure, not on the happy path.320 min
Hands-on labs
A bounded agent loop
Write the loop yourself — tool dispatch, step budget, termination — so the framework version stops being magic.
55 min · Intermediate · runs in the browser
Projects you can ship
Transaction Fraud Narrative Analyst
Turn a flagged transaction cluster into an investigator-ready narrative: what happened, why the model flagged it, and which three facts would change the conclusion.
Finance · 26h · Professional
Insurance Claims Triage Agent
Read a first-notice-of-loss packet, classify severity, pull the relevant policy clauses, and route — with a written justification the adjuster can argue with.
Insurance · 30h · Expert
Predictive Maintenance Copilot
Correlate sensor anomalies with maintenance history and the equipment manual, then hand a technician a ranked checklist for a machine that hasn't failed yet.
Manufacturing · 26h · Professional
Adaptive Learning Tutor
A tutor that diagnoses the misconception behind a wrong answer and teaches to that — rather than restating the correct answer more loudly.
Education · 22h · Associate
On completion
ReveloSoft Certified Professional
You design systems other engineers build on, and you can defend the design under pressure. Evaluation, cost and failure behaviour are part of your answer, not an afterthought.
120-minute assessment · pass mark 80% · QR-verifiable credential
- Hold the Associate certificate
- Complete three Professional-level academies
- Pass the case-study and system-design assessment
- Ship an enterprise project with an evaluation suite
- Pass a technical review with a ReveloSoft mentor