Production agent
engineering training.
Six courses, 32 lessons. Provider-agnostic, security-grounded, operations-verified. From the team that builds ANN-Mesh — not a tutorial shop, a production agent company that teaches.
From zero to production agent engineer
Start with Course 0 (free). Build up through architecture, multi-agent systems, security, production ops, and team management. Two paths: self-paced or cohort.
| Course | Self-Paced | Cohort | Duration | Prerequisite |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C0 — Agent Systems Foundation | FREE | — | 4 modules | None |
| C1 — Agent Architecture & Protocol Engineering | $597 | $3,995 | 8 weeks | C0 or equivalent |
| C2 — Multi-Agent Orchestration | $397 | $2,995 | 6 weeks | C1 |
| C3 — Agent Security Engineering | $497 | $3,495 | 6 weeks | C1 |
| C4 — Production Agent Operations | $397 | $2,495 | 4 weeks | C1 |
| C5 — Agent Operations Management | $297 | $1,995 | 4 weeks | C1 or equivalent |
| Bundle — All 6 courses | $1,497 | $9,995 | — | All prerequisites |
Curriculum deep-dive
Agent Systems Foundation
What makes an agent, tool-calling protocols (MCP/A2A/OpenAI), security basics, the agent loop pattern.
Agent Architecture & Protocol
Provider-agnostic tool calling (8 providers), agent loop engineering, MCP deep dive, A2A integration, ACP, context virtualization, autonomous memory, capstone.
Multi-Agent Orchestration
Agent discovery, 5 orchestration patterns (chain/fan-out/router/evaluator/supervisor), subagent systems, profile adoption, conflict resolution, capstone.
Agent Security Engineering
Attack surface taxonomy, 3-tier approval architectures, red-teaming (PyRIT/Garak/Promptfoo), guardrails, hooks & observability, security audit capstone.
Production Agent Operations
Reliability engineering, trace analysis, deployment pipeline with build lock, cost optimization (model routing/caching/compression), production ops capstone.
Agent Operations Management
Operating protocols (FORGE), ops board workflow, BMAD review gates, build lock & deployment governance, profile adoption, handoff contracts, escalation chains.
No one teaches this. We built it because we needed it.
Most agent training covers one framework (LangChain, CrewAI) or one protocol. We teach the protocol layer underneath all of them — so you can build against any framework, any provider, any architecture.
| Factor | DeepLearning.AI | SANS | Stanford | ANN Agent Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depth | 2hr single topic | 6-day survey | 10-week academic | 8-week protocol-level |
| Provider-agnostic | No | No | No | Yes — 8 providers |
| Security course | No | No | No | Full 6-week course |
| Production ops | No | No | No | Full 4-week course |
| Ops management | No | No | No | Full 4-week course |
| Real production harness | Demo code | Lab VMs | Research papers | ANN-Mesh production |
| Price | $49-79 | $6K-$8K | $5.6K | $297-$3,995 |
| Outcome | Know a protocol | Survey knowledge | Theoretical | Build any agent, any framework |
Start with Course 0 — free.
Four modules, no prerequisites. You'll build an agent loop from scratch, understand tool-calling across three protocols, and know the security basics that every agent engineer needs.