Designing an Automated Research Assistant with Agent Builder

In an era of information overload, manually searching, filtering, and summarizing academic and web sources is a major bottleneck. Building an intelligent, automated research assistant allows you to streamline this workflow, turning hours of searching into seconds of structured synthesis. This course guides you through the process of designing and configuring an agentic assistant that coordinates multiple search tools to deliver comprehensive research reports. You will start by mastering the core concepts of agentic design, tool calling, and structured output. From there, you will learn how to connect your assistant to live data sources, manage multi-step reasoning loops, and implement modern retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns to ensure high-quality, factual outputs. What you'll learn: - Understand the foundational concepts of AI agents, tool configuration, and multi-step reasoning loops - Configure automated search tools to query and extract data from web sources and academic repositories - Design structured prompt templates that guide your assistant to synthesize complex information objectively - Implement retrieval-augmented generation patterns to ground your assistant's findings in verified data - Apply error-handling and fallback strategies to manage API limits and incomplete search results - Build a cohesive workflow that transforms raw search queries into polished, structured research summaries This text-based course is structured to take you from foundational definitions to a complete design blueprint. You will explore step-by-step conceptual breakdowns and practical configuration examples that you can immediately apply to your own development projects. This course is designed for software developers, product builders, and tech-savvy researchers who want to understand agentic workflows. No prior experience with AI agent frameworks is required, though a basic understanding of API concepts is helpful. Dive in to start building your own automated research workflows today.