Agent Valley is a free, five-week live learning series from Google DevRel engineer Annie Wang, designed to teach AI agent development from scratch. It targets people without a machine learning background or extensive software experience, and participants build agent systems inside a low-poly virtual world rather than working with terminal interfaces. The course is structured around a split-screen workspace: while the participant guides a custom companion character through five districts of the valley, a Runtime Inspector displays what the AI is thinking, deciding, and costing in real time. Google provides the environment for the exercises, so setup is minimized.

Each of the five weekly sessions covers a modular agent-building skill. Week 1, “The Summoning Grove,” focuses on CONTROL: keeping a companion’s memory and traits consistent across a conversation. Week 2, “The Buildyard,” covers DECOMPOSE: breaking a large project into parallel sub-tasks for multiple AI assistants. Week 3, “Market Street,” addresses COORDINATE: writing reliable code for transactions and returns in a virtual shop. Week 4, “The Archive,” teaches REMEMBER: giving the companion long-term memory without confusion or hallucination. Week 5, “The Night Market,” is the finale, on LIVE: making the agent react to world events (fireworks, stage lights) while keeping the system fast and affordable.

The livestream runs on five Tuesdays starting September 1 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time. Sessions are modular, so participants can jump in at any week. RSVP is via goo.gle/agent101. The series is explicitly for newcomers to AI agents who want to learn by coding and playing.