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PATH 01 · AI

Build with agents.

Build with the new generation of agents - from the model itself to the design tools, frameworks, and the people whose work is moving the field.

12 ARTICLES

Articles in this path.

Three angles on the current generation of AI - the assistant most teams build on, the design tool from the same lab, and the engineers worth following as the agentic field evolves.

AI · AGENTS / LEVEL 101

What is Agentic AI?

A short, honest tour of the term everyone is using - what agentic AI actually means, how it differs from a chatbot, the loop that powers it, and where it earns its keep in real work.

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AI · AGENTS / LEVEL 201

What are Agent Skills?

Portable, composable units of expertise an agent can load on demand - the way you teach Claude (or any modern LLM agent) to do specialised work without rebuilding the model around it.

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AI · ASSISTANT / LEVEL 101

What is Claude?

Anthropic's AI assistant - a family of large language models built for conversational reasoning, writing, coding, and analysis, with safety as a first-class design goal.

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AI · DEVELOPER TOOL / LEVEL 201

What is Claude Code?

Anthropic's coding agent that runs in your terminal - reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and ships features. Claude with your shell at its disposal.

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AI · DESIGN TOOL / LEVEL 101

What is Claude Design?

Anthropic Labs' AI design tool - generate complete visual concepts, UI mockups, slides, and design assets from natural-language prompts.

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AI · FRAMEWORK / LEVEL 201

What is Microsoft Agent Framework?

Microsoft's open-source framework for building agentic AI applications - the successor to AutoGen, with first-class C# and Python SDKs and an Azure AI Foundry integration.

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AI · FRAMEWORKS / LEVEL 101

AI Agent Frameworks

The six frameworks teams reach for when they move from one-off prompts to real agents - LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, and Microsoft Agent Framework, lined up side by side.

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AI · PROTOCOL / LEVEL 101

What is Model Context Protocol?

The open standard for connecting AI assistants to the tools and data they need - one protocol every model speaks, one server every host can plug into.

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AI · AGENTS / LEVEL 101

Functions, MCP, and Skills

Three building blocks people keep mixing up - the unit of action, the protocol that plugs it in, and the folder of know-how that tells the agent when to use it.

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AI · IMAGE GENERATION / LEVEL 101

What is Nano Banana?

Google's image generation model - real-time, conversational image creation inside Gemini, the Gemini API, and the wider Google creative stack.

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AI · IMAGE GENERATION / LEVEL 101

What Nano Banana can do?

The capability tour - vibe edits, style transfer from a reference, legible in-image text, infographics on Pro, and the Fast / Thinking / Pro speed picker.

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AI · PEOPLE / LEVEL 101

Agentic AI people

Notable people to follow for agentic AI, AutoGen, and Microsoft Agent Framework work - the engineers and architects whose feeds are worth reading first.

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EXTERNAL · CURATED

Resources for this path

Official docs, deep dives, and videos worth bookmarking - the canonical sources behind every article.