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AI Agents 101

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For anyone who keeps hearing "AI agents" and wants to build one rather than read about it. Live so far: “n8n AI Agent Tutorial: Save Social Media Ideas to Google Sheets”, “What Are Claude Skills? Turn One On and Watch It Work” and “Your First Voice Agent in ElevenLabs: An After-Hours Receptionist”. 2 more lessons in this path are on the way.

Work through them in order: each step builds on the one before it, and every module runs in a practice copy of n8n, Claude and ElevenLabs Agents right in your browser. It is free, and no experience is needed.

Advanced 3 modules about 28 minutes Free Start the path free

The path: 3 steps

  1. Step 1: n8n AI Agent Tutorial: Save Social Media Ideas to Google Sheets✓ Done

    Build an AI agent for BrightPath Marketing that generates social media post ideas and saves them to Google Sheets — chat trigger, AI Agent, system prompt, model, memory, and the Sheets tool.

    Free · about 12 minutes · Watch the video · Read the guide · Next up: What Are Claude Skills? Turn One On and Watch It Work

  2. Step 2: What Are Claude Skills? Turn One On and Watch It Work✓ Done

    Learn what a Claude skill is, switch on the setting skills need, turn on an example skill in Customize, and watch Claude use its Excel and Word skills on its own.

    Free · about 7 minutes · Next up: Your First Voice Agent in ElevenLabs: An After-Hours Receptionist

  3. Step 3: Your First Voice Agent in ElevenLabs: An After-Hours Receptionist✓ Done

    Build an after-hours phone receptionist for a small plumbing company: system prompt, a greeting that says it is AI, a calm voice and a fast model, then test-call it in your browser and read the transcript.

    Free · about 9 minutes · Last step

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How every module works

Each step is shown on the left, with a cursor pointing to exactly where to click. You do the same thing on the right, in a practice copy of the real tool. Get it right and it moves on. Nothing touches your real accounts until you're ready to build it for real.

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