How to Build AI Agents — Free Video Roadmap
A step-by-step path through the best free YouTube videos on building AI agents — from the core ideas, to tool use with MCP, to hands-on framework courses, orchestration, and shipping to production. Built from 11 agent frameworks and 30 hand-sequenced videos.
To learn to build AI agents in 2026, follow this order: understand the agent loop, add tool use with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), build hands-on with a framework like LangGraph or CrewAI, then add orchestration and memory and ship to production. This roadmap sequences 30 of the best free YouTube videos — beginning with "LangChain Explained in 13 Minutes | QuickStart Tutorial for Beginners" by Rabbitmetrics (1,107,020 views).
What Are AI Agents?
Foundations before any framework — what agents are, how they reason, and the core loop
3:17:51
27:28
3:12:48
11:19 Tool Use & Context (MCP)
How agents reach the outside world — tool calling and the Model Context Protocol
1:06
21:34
1:27
7:09 Build With a Framework
Hands-on courses for LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Google ADK, LangChain and LlamaIndex
23:56
3:34:17
4:46:47
15:19
37:13
1:57:38 Orchestration, Memory & Multi-Agent
Coordinate multiple agents, add memory, and design reliable agent workflows
24:47
12:04
1:52:13
13:04
12:04 Ship to Production
Deploy, scale, and observe real agents — AgentCore, n8n automation, and cloud runtimes
22:32
15:17
40:53
9:43
1:36:52 Stay Current
The freshest agent-building videos from the last 6 months
12:16
17:25
20:51
10:51
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