Building AI Agents - Training Workshop

​CascadiaJS is thrillled to offer hands-on trainings on JS & AI development.

​Instructor: Eve Porcello from Moon Highway

​Location: Seattle, WA

​Explore everything from basic tool calling to sophisticated multi-step agents that can reason and act autonomously.

​Morning - Agent Foundations

​Learn how to build AI agents through hands-on exercises with tool calling and agent loops.

• ​Tool Calling Fundamentals

  • ​Understanding function calling

  • ​Designing effective tool schemas

  • ​Handling tool results and errors

  • ​Hands-on: Building an agent with tools

• ​Agent Architecture

  • ​The agent loop pattern

  • ​Planning and decision making

  • ​Managing conversation context

  • ​Hands-on: Creating a custom assistant agent

​Afternoon - Advanced Agent Development

​Take your agent skills further by building autonomous systems that can handle complex, multi-step workflows.

• ​Multi-Step Agents

  • ​Orchestrating complex tasks

  • ​Chain-of-thought reasoning

  • ​Handling uncertainty and retries

  • ​Hands-on: Building a code generation agent

• ​Agent Patterns in Production

  • ​Human-in-the-loop workflows

  • ​Observability and debugging agents

  • ​Ralph Wiggum loops

  • ​Safety guardrails and constraints

  • ​Hands-on: Building a full-featured task automation agent

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​About CascadiaJS

​CascadiaJS is a community for web + AI developers in the Pacific Northwest. We create events that will help you level up, grow your network, find a job and have fun!

​About Eve Porcello

​Eve Porcello is a software engineer, instructor, author, and co-founder of Moon Highway. Her career started writing technical specifications and creating UX designs for web projects.

​Since starting Moon Highway in 2012, she has created video content for egghead.io, O'Reilly Media, and LinkedIn Learning. She is a frequent conference speaker and has presented at events including React Rally, GraphQL Summit, and OSCON.