The Hugging Face Agents Course
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Content
The course is divided into 5 units. These will take you from the basics of agents to a final assignment with a benchmark.
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| Unit | Topic | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Welcome to the Course | Welcome, guidelines, necessary tools, and course overview. |
| 1 | Introduction to Agents | Definition of agents, LLMs, model family tree, and special tokens. |
| 1.5 | (Bonus Unit 1) Fine-tuning an LLM for Function-calling | Learn to fine-tune an LLM for Function-Calling |
| 2 | 2_frameworks | Overview of smolagents, LangChain, LangGraph, and LlamaIndex. |
| 2.5 | (Bonus Unit 2) Observability and Evaluation | Learn how to trace and evaluate your agents. |
| 3 | 3_use_cases | SQL, code, retrieval, and on-device agents using various frameworks. |
| 4 | 4_final_assignment_with_benchmark | Automated evaluation of agents and leaderboard with student results. |
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of Python
- Basic knowledge of LLMs
Contribution Guidelines
If you want to contribute to this course, you're welcome to do so. Feel free to open an issue or join the discussion in the Discord. For specific contributions, here are some guidelines:
Small typo and grammar fixes
If you find a small typo or grammar mistake, please fix it yourself and submit a pull request. This is very helpful for students.
New unit
If you want to add a new unit, please create an issue in the repository, describe the unit, and why it should be added. We will discuss it and if it's a good addition, we can collaborate on it.
Work on existing units
We are actively working on the units and if you want to join us, we will need to find a place in the workflow. Here's an overview of where we are open to collaboration:
| Unit | Status | Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | ✅ Complete | Bug fixes and improvements only |
| 1 | ✅ Complete | Bug fixes and improvements only |
| 2 | 🚧 In Progress | If you're a contributor to a framework, we're open to contributions and reviews |
| 3 | 🗓️ Planned | If you're experienced with agents, we're open to help with use cases |
| 4 | 🚧 In Progress | Work is underway, no need for help with integration |
If in doubt, join the discussion in the Discord.
Citing the project
To cite this repository in publications:
@misc{agents-course,
author = {Burtenshaw, Ben and Thomas, Joffrey and Simonini, Thomas},
title = {The Hugging Face Agents Course},
year = {2025},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/huggingface/agents-course}},
note = {GitHub repository},
}