Agent Skills Live
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The latest agent capabilities, put to work
Ready to see what AI agents can actually do? Join Lucas Soares and Louis-François Bouchard each week as they showcase the latest AI agent skills through live demos, practical workflows, and real-world use cases. Explore new capabilities, get inspired by what others are building, ask questions, and learn how to get more done with AI. You’ll leave with new ideas, practical examples, and a clearer understanding of how to make AI agents more capable, useful, and reliable.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Discover emerging agent skills and the tasks they can help you accomplish
- See how to configure and apply each skill through practical, real-world demonstrations
- Evaluate each skill’s strengths, limitations, and reliability before adding it to your own workflows
This live event is for you because...
- You’re a software developer, AI or ML engineer, data scientist, solutions architect, or technical lead exploring how agents can support your work.
- You’re a product manager, business analyst, automation specialist, or knowledge worker looking for practical ways to apply agent capabilities.
- You want to move beyond basic prompting and discover what AI agents can actually do.
- You prefer practical demonstrations and honest discussion over product hype.
Prerequisites
- Come with your questions
- Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration
Recommended follow-up:
- Read Skills for AI Agents (early release book)
- Watch GenAI Prompt to Product Showcase: Agent Skills (event video)
- Take Building Agent Skills for Claude Code (live online course with Bence Csernak)
- Take Hands-On Agent Skills: From Folder to Shippable Expertise (live online course with Lucas Soares)
- Take Hands-On AI Tools and Agent Skills (live online course with Lucas Soares)
- Read An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents (book)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Tuesdays 8:00am PT / 11:00am ET
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (45 minutes)
Your Hosts and Guests
Lucas Soares
Lucas Soares is a machine learning engineer who has worked at K1 Digital and Biometrid, where he developed computer vision and NLP models for applications such as document verification, OCR-based applications, and recommender systems. Lucas has also developed various ML models, including neural networks, Siamese networks, convolutional neural networks, LSTMs, and genetic algorithms.
Louis-Francois Bouchard
Louis-François Bouchard is the cofounder of Towards AI, where he builds and teaches a practical toolkit for shipping reliable LLM products. He coauthored Building LLMs for Production, a hands-on guide to prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval augmented generation, and evaluation. Through Towards AI Academy, he has launched multiple in-depth courses designed to turn developers into AI professionals who can transform prototypes into scalable, customer-ready systems. He also runs the What’s AI YouTube channel and newsletter, translating new research and best practices into clear engineering playbooks for 70K+ subscribers and tens of thousands of readers. Today, he partners with founders and organizations on AI strategy, training design, and production workflows that raise accuracy, reduce risk, and make generative AI useful for paying customers.