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Agents 101: How to build your first AI Agent in 30 minutes!⚡️

Anmol Baranwal on February 18, 2025

We are seeing a rise in AI agents in 2025. Building your own agent can be complex, and all the concepts, frameworks, and practices you need to fol...
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Divya

This is a really great guide.
Thank you for creating it.

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for reading Divya! Appreciate your support :)

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Mike Stemle

While I do think that this is a decent introduction, I do worry that this is also a whole lot of new surface area to secure. Folks probably shouldn't be using this approach in systems with sensitive data, or mission-critical workloads.

While making the agent may be straightforward, recovering from the breaches the agent will facilitate likely won't be.

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Nathan Tarbert

Hi Mike, I'm with the CopilotKit team. Would you mind clarifying?

I just wanted to emphasize that sensitive data can be secured by staying on-prem via self hosting, including an LLM that can also be run on your own server.

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Mike Stemle

Having AI tools have access to perform actions and access sensitive systems can lead to threat actors targeting the LLM component to attack your other systems.

No matter how much you secure your onprem systems, the LLM is still a net-new vector.

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Nathan Tarbert

I appreciate you bringing this up because I'm a strong advocate for security.

To your point, my philosophy is that all systems should be locked down, stress tested, and scanned for vulnerabilities to avoid a threat actor penetrating any system.

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Mike Stemle

I’m glad that this is your philosophy, but as of yet the degree of rigor involved in LLM agents is not great. If an LLM can hallucinate when I’m chatting with it, that’s unpredictable behavior. As a hacker myself, I love unpredictable behavior.

It’s only a matter of time before a massive pile of zero-days emerges from this trend of LLM agents. I doubt it’s far off into the future, and I doubt very seriously if there’s much anybody can do to mitigate that risk while using an LLM agent other than to limit it to tasks that have no access to sensitive information or critical infrastructure or workloads.

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K Om Senapati

Great tutorial for setting up co-agents

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Anmol Baranwal

Awesome Om! 🔥 I guess the title should include CoAgents haha, totally get that.

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Rob Benzo

Hi Omelet 👋

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Bap

👏

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uliyahoo

Nice Anmol. Been waiting to have an article of this type for awhile!

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Anmol Baranwal

Awesome Uli. 🔥 I'm sure this will be super helpful for those starting from scratch.

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Bonnie

Well-written and informative article, Anmol.

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for reading, Bonnie. Appreciate it.

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Aniruddha Mukherjee

Really well written article. Will replicate today morning!

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Anmol Baranwal

Awesome! Let me know if you run into any problems. I've tried to cover everything, so you probably won't get stuck.

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johnwoods12

When will CopilotKit support CrewAI already?????????

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uliyahoo

want to be an early tester? 👀

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Nathan Tarbert

Thanks for the insightful article Anmol on how to get started with agents! 🚀

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for reading, Nathan! 🙌

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Yash Kumar Saini

Really good informative article really liked the approach simple & easy, yet keeping all details

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for reading, Yash! 🔥 Means a lot.

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Md Abid Hussain

Great tutorial

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for checking this out, Abid! 🔥 Let me know if you run into any problems :)

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Dariel Vila • Edited

Nice article. Thanks for sharing. We have a similar use case in KaibanJS 👉🏻 kaibanjs.com/

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Anmol Baranwal

Awesome! Thank you for sharing. I believe someone shared this in my community a few days ago.

I gave it a star on GitHub as well, it's very close to 1k stars! The link isn’t working so I recommend fixing it in case someone else wants to check it out.

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Morgan

Really cool!

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Shrijal Acharya

Great one, Anmol! 🙌

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Anmol Baranwal

Thanks for checking this out, Shrijal! 🔥 Time to build something amazing :)

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Steven

I took a look at the docs and I only see LangGraph. Are you going to expand support to Haystack, AutoGen, CrewAI or others?

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Nathan Tarbert

Hi Steven, thanks for checking out the docs!

The short answer is yes we are currently working on expanding to other frameworks on our short term roadmap and we will have some big announcements coming very soon!

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May Sanders

Excellent tutorial on developing AI agents! This step-by-step process makes it simple for newbies to grasp the fundamental concepts and get started immediately. AI agents are playing a more significant role in automating processes and improving decision-making processes. For those who want to scale their solutions, using AI development services can optimize and deploy smart agents effectively. Looking forward to seeing more tutorials like this!"

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John Cook

I've been using agents for several months now as an internal tool and I wish I would've had this guide as a starter to give me a quickstart. It's been a whirlwind to figure out how to build a frontend that shows what the agent is doing on the backend. I'll check out CopilotKit for sure because this may save me a ton of engineering hours.

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Keith Walker

This is an incredibly well-structured and beginner-friendly guide. The breakdown of AI agents, the step-by-step setup, and the real-world examples make it much easier to understand. The use of LangGraph and CopilotKit is a game-changer for building AI-driven applications.

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Excited to try this out! Keep up the great work!

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johny walker

Nice one Anmol, really enjoyed it 🚀

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Raziel Rodrigues

nice nice nice!

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chan

Thank you for sharing

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yesyesprashanth

This is really an awesome information, thank you so much Anmol, you are doing a great job sharing such knowledge. Learning a lot from you.

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Saile Dalil

Very interesting and well explained, thank you!

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Techtter

Great post. Thanks 🙏

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Lokesh Makhija

Good job Anmol ... Indeed an informative piece, nicely compiled and written!!

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Sammy Scolling

Cool beans!
I found this guide extremely easy to understand.
Thank you!

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AI Trendz

Very good!

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Nikhil Sharma

Well articulated. Thanks for making it easy to understand.

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