AI Agent Workshop

Build agents.
Test ideas. Learn fast. HalperBot

Hands-on tools for understanding how AI agents actually work — no slides, just exercises.

  • Zero to agent automation — self-paced for any skill level
  • 100% free and open source — updated weekly with new tools
  • Leadership assessments + industry-specific agent templates
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Get Set Up

Make sure Claude and Antigravity are installed. Can't begin without this.

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AI ≠ Chatbot

What most people think AI is (a chatbot) vs. what it should be used for — agents that take action.

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How LLMs Actually Work

Interactive demos: tokenizer, context windows, attention heatmaps, and the prediction flow. Understand the engine before you drive it.

Open LLM Explainer →
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The 6 Agentic Capabilities

What separates agents from chatbots — the 6 core capabilities: chain reasoning, use tools, self-correct, orchestrate, operate autonomously, and make decisions.

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Practice Prompting

See the difference a good prompt makes. Interactive before & after comparisons that show why words matter.

Open Prompt Lab →
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Go Deeper — Build a Website

Put it all together. Use AI to build and deploy your own personal website from scratch in 30 minutes. Real code, real hosting, real results.

Open Website Builder →
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RAG Explained

How to make AI accurate instead of confidently wrong. 12 side-by-side examples, a chunking demo, and a decision tree for when to use RAG.

Open RAG Explainer →
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MCP & Tool Use

How agents connect to the real world — email, databases, files, browsers. Watch tool-use flows in action and build your own tool definition.

Open MCP Explainer →
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Agent Teams & Subagents

Stop building one thing at a time. Learn to direct multiple AI agents working in parallel, design your own custom agent, and master 8 prompt patterns.

Open Agent Teams →
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Build 6 Agents

Hands-on. Build one agent for each capability. Together.

Open Idea Factory →

Deep Dives

Interactive concept explainers. Read them in order or jump to what you need.

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1. How LLMs Work

Tokenizer, context windows, attention heatmaps, and prediction flow. Understand the engine before you drive it.

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2. RAG Explained

Why AI hallucinates and how RAG fixes it. 12 side-by-side comparisons, chunking demo, and decision tree.

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3. MCP & Tool Use

How agents connect to the real world — email, databases, files, browsers. Build your own tool definition.

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Workshop Tools

Click around. These are the tools we'll use during the workshop.

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How LLMs Work

Interactive tokenizer, context window visualizer, attention heatmaps, and prediction flow.

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Prompt Lab

Interactive before/after exercises plus a cookbook of ready-to-use prompts by job function.

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Whiteboard

Collaborative canvas for mapping agent flows and architectures.

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Website Builder

Build and deploy your first personal website in 30 minutes using AI.

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RAG Explained

Why AI hallucinates and how RAG fixes it. 12 side-by-side comparisons, chunking demo, and decision tree.

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MCP & Tool Use

How agents connect to tools. Watch tool-use flows, build tool definitions, and explore capabilities.

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Agent Teams

Direct multiple AI agents in parallel, design your own custom agent, and master 8 prompt patterns.

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Agent Library

Browse 24 ready-to-use agents across 12 departments. Copy their system prompts directly.

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Cheat Sheet

One-page reference: 8 essential prompt patterns with copyable examples that work across any model.

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Idea Factory & Challenges

Generate random agent exercises plus 15 progressive challenges from beginner to advanced.

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Tips, Lessons & Glossary

Workshop tips, hard-won lessons from 4 years of building with AI, plus a searchable glossary of 43+ AI terms.

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For Leaders & Teams

AI Readiness Assessment

Four tools, five minutes. Find your skill level, calculate your ROI, score your org's maturity, and discover what to automate first.

How AI-Ready Are You?

10 questions. 2 minutes. Find out where you are on Peter's 4-Stage Capability Framework and get a personalized path through the workshop.

Peter's 4-Stage Capability Framework — Prompt Craft, Context Engineering, Intent Engineering, Specification Engineering
The 4 stages of AI interaction mastery. This quiz tells you where you are — and what to focus on next.
Ready to level up? Try the ROI Calculator below to see your potential savings.

What's AI Worth to You?

Add your weekly tasks below. See how many hours AI could save you — and what that time is worth.

Quick add:
Add tasks above to see your AI ROI
Those hours add up. Now explore what AI can do for your role — or score your org's AI maturity.

What Can AI Actually Do for You?

Pick your role. See specific things AI can handle — with prompts you can copy and use today.

Is Your Business Ready for AI?

Most companies are sitting on massive AI opportunity without realizing it. Rate these 5 areas honestly — your score reveals exactly where AI would hit hardest.

Repetitive Work
How much of your team's time goes to tasks that follow the same steps every time?
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Data Chaos
Spreadsheets everywhere? Info trapped in people's heads? Hard to get a clear answer fast?
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Customer Bottlenecks
Slow response times, manual follow-ups, or customers waiting on humans for simple answers?
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Content & Communication
Reports, emails, proposals, social posts — how much time does writing and editing consume?
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Decision Speed
How long does it take to get the data you need to make a decision? Hours? Days?
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What Should You Automate First?

Pick your department. See the highest-impact automations ranked by complexity and ROI.

Know what to build? Let Peter help you build it.

Watch Peter's sizzle reel for this free workshop

Peter has reviewed dozens of companies' AI maturity. Strategy, data, tooling, culture — the full stack. Most aren't where they think they are.

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