Running Agents Safely and Reliably: Test, Control and Monitor
Test agents before you trust them, roll back mistakes, set guardrails and budgets, handle approvals on web and phone, control runs, keep secrets safe and know when to stop an agent.
What you'll learn
- Foundations of safe operation
- Testing and change
- Controls you enforce
- Cost and control
- Responsible operation
- Final assessment
This is the third course in the "Become an AI agent builder" track. Building an agent is the easy part. Keeping it dependable once it runs without you is the real skill, and it is what separates a demo from something you can rely on. You will learn how to test agents with saved cases, replay old runs against new versions, roll back a change that made things worse, apply hard guardrails, manage approvals from the web and your phone, understand what each run costs and what happens at a budget, control runs while they work, read reports, handle secrets and privacy, and recognise when to stop an agent.
Take "AI Agents Fundamentals" and "Build Your First Agents on PGB Agents" first. They cover the ideas and the agents this course assumes you have. After this course, "Agents for Business Teams" (agents-for-business-teams) shows how to use these practices across a team.