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Agents 101: How to Build and Deploy Anything with AI Agents
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A companion guide to the Agents 101 video: a behind-the-scenes walkthrough of building and deploying AI agents fast on Vercel, the agentic infrastructure stack. Here is the map of what to learn and where to go next.
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| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Watch: Agents 101 | The full walkthrough on the DevDigest channel |
| Vercel | The agentic infrastructure stack used in the video |
| Vercel AI SDK | The SDK for wiring models and tools into agents |
What This Video Covers
Agents 101 is a behind-the-scenes walkthrough of how to build and deploy AI agents quickly using Vercel as the agentic infrastructure stack. The goal is simple: go from an idea to a running agent without stitching together a dozen services first.
This post is a companion to the video. Watch the walkthrough above for the full build, then use the links here to go deeper on each piece.
The Mental Model
An AI agent is not one thing. It is a loop: a model that reasons, tools it can call, memory it can read and write, and a runtime that keeps the whole thing alive between steps. If you want that broken down from first principles, start with AI Agents Explained.
The reason Vercel keeps coming up is that it packages the parts you would otherwise assemble by hand. The agentic infrastructure stack covers the model routing, sandboxed execution, and deployment surface an agent needs to actually run in production rather than just on your laptop.
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From Idea to Deployed Agent
The through-line of the video is speed: how little sits between an idea and a live, deployed agent when the infrastructure gets out of the way. A practical path that mirrors that flow:
- Pick a job for the agent. One clear task beats a vague "assistant." A scoped job is easier to build, test, and trust.
- Wire the model and tools. The Vercel AI SDK is the layer that connects a model to the tools it can call.
- Give it a framework. If you want structure instead of a bare loop, the Eve framework for building AI agents is a good starting point, and there is a hands-on build your first agent tutorial that walks it end to end.
- Deploy. The payoff in the video is that deploy is not a separate project. The same stack that runs the agent locally is the one that ships it.
Where to Go Next
If you are just getting oriented, AI Agents Explained is the conceptual base. If you are ready to build, the Eve framework tutorial is the fastest hands-on route. And when you start thinking about running agents for real, the agentic infrastructure guide explains how the pieces compose.
Watch the full Agents 101 walkthrough above, then pick one small job and ship an agent that does it.
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