Tool Use & Function Calling
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10 lessons3 levels1 capstone project
Connect models to deterministic capabilities through schemas and tool contracts; learn function calling, tool selection, validation, retries, permissions, structured outputs, error handling, and human approvals.
BASIC
- New Tools for Building Agents — OpenAI (30 min selected)
Modern model/tool primitives and how agents invoke external capabilities. - Introduction to MCP Servers — Microsoft Build (15 min)
See tool definitions, schemas, testing, and invocation in a real development workflow. - Tips for Building AI Agents Hands-On Video — Anthropic (17 min Time)
Shows why tools should be simple, explicit, testable, and constrained. Build / Practice
INTERMEDIATE
- Building More Effective AI Agents — Anthropic
Apply Tool Use & Function Calling through the adjacent capability: AI Agents. - LLM Agents: History & Overview (Shunyu Yao) — UC Berkeley
Apply Tool Use & Function Calling through the adjacent capability: AI Agents. - Multimodal AI — Google Cloud Tech
Apply Tool Use & Function Calling through the adjacent capability: Multimodal AI.
ADVANCED
- MCP Workshop — Anthropic
Extend Tool Use & Function Calling into senior/production practice through AI Agents. - Agent Service SDK Demo — Microsoft Azure
Extend Tool Use & Function Calling into senior/production practice through AI Experience Engineering. - LangGraph Tutorial: Build Your First AI Agent — DataCamp
Extend Tool Use & Function Calling into senior/production practice through Agent Frameworks & Platforms.