🚀 Beginner’s Roadmap to Agentic AI

Only 5 tools you need to start learning Agentic AI

What is Agentic AI?

Agentic AI = AI that doesn’t just “answer questions” but can act like an agent (take actions, use tools, plan steps, and adapt to goals).

Difference between GPT and Agentic AI:

• Regular GPT: You ask → It answers (like a smart search engine)

• Agentic AI: You give a goal → It plans, uses tools, and executes steps to achieve it (like a digital assistant)

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Steps to build AI Agents from scratch

1. OpenAI API – The Brain 🧠

• What it does: Think of this as the brain of your AI agent. OpenAI gives you models like GPT-4 and GPT-4o-mini that can understand and generate human-like text.

• Why it’s important: Every agent needs a “thinking core.” Without it, it’s just code with no intelligence.

• Example: You send it a question → it replies intelligently.

• Link: OpenAI API Starter or Anthropic Claude

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2. LangChain – The Orchestrator 🗺️

• What it does: Connects your AI brain to external tools like Google Search, calculators, databases, and APIs.

• Why it’s important: If you only use OpenAI API, the AI can chat, but it doesn’t do things. LangChain lets it ACT like an agent.

• Example: Ask “summarize this 10-page PDF and store it in a database” → LangChain helps glue together GPT + file readers + database.

• Link: LangChain Starter or LangChain for Beginners

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3. LlamaIndex – The Librarian 📚

• What it does: LlamaIndex helps your AI read custom data like your PDFs, Word docs, Notion pages, or database entries.

• Why it’s important: GPT alone doesn’t know your personal files. LlamaIndex makes it possible for GPT to answer questions from your own data.

• Example: Upload your college syllabus → then ask “what chapters should I study for Unit 3?”

• Link: LlamaIndex Starter

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4. Pinecone – The Memory 🧩

• What it does: Pinecone is a vector database that stores “memories” of what your AI learns, in a format it can understand.

• Why it’s important: AI doesn’t remember past conversations by default. With Pinecone, you can give it long-term memory.

• Example: Ask your bot yesterday about your project. Today, it should remember what you said. Pinecone makes that happen.

• Link: Pinecone Starter

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5. LangGraph – The Autonomous Agent 🤖

• What it does: Builds complex multi-step workflows where the agent plans and executes tasks on its own without assistance.

• Why it’s important: Instead of you guiding each step, you give a goal and it figures out the plan.

• Example: Tell it: “Post a reel about Agentic AI” → it breaks it down into research, writing, editing and posting. Also CrewAI creates teams of AI agents that work together, each having different roles.

• Link: LanGraph Starter

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Agentic AI Workflow

User Request
    ↓
LangChain (Orchestration)
    ↓
AI Model (OpenAI/Claude) ← → Tools (Search, Calculator, etc.)
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LlamaIndex (Your Data) ← → Pinecone (Memory)
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Response to User

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