Claude AI Agents – Build Your Own AI Employee | Claude AI Mastery #8

Claude AI Agents – Build Your Own AI Employee | Claude AI Mastery #8 What an AI agent actually is, how the agent loop works with tool use, a demo recreation of a simple research-assistant agent with the Claude API, the Claude Agent SDK, and honest guardrails. An 'AI employee' is a helpful metaphor, not a replacement for people. Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:19 What is an agent 00:42 Parts 01:05 Define tools 01:19 The loop 01:43 Run 01:58 Agent SDK 02:20 Good jobs 02:37 Guardrails 03:00 Evaluate 03:17 Multi-agent 03:43 Mistakes 04:00 Example 04:30 Costs 04:52 Quick quiz 05:42 Recap 05:56 Outro Note: All on-screen Claude chat and terminal screens are DEMO RECREATIONS made with code for teaching — not real screen recordings. Narration uses a synthetic text-to-speech voice reading an original script. Features, limits and pricing change often; check anthropic.com / claude.ai for current details. This is an independent tutorial channel, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic. ▶ Full series: Claude AI Mastery 2026 – From Beginner to AI Automation Expert #ClaudeAI #AI #AITutorial #Automation #FutureStack