Build AI Agents that Never Sleep

Design long-running, reliable Node.js agents that work in the background with queues, retries, schedules, and observability.

Most AI demos stop at a chat box. Real products need agents that continue working after the user closes the tab: processing jobs, reacting to events, retrying failures, coordinating tools, and reporting progress along the way.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll build a Node.js-based background agent system from the ground up. Starting from a simple tool-calling loop, you’ll evolve it into a durable workflow that can run asynchronously, store state, schedule future work, recover from errors, and surface useful telemetry. Along the way, you’ll learn the patterns that make unattended agents practical in production: queues, resumability, idempotency, memory management, approvals, and observability.

By the end of the day, you’ll have a working reference architecture for background agents and a mental model for when to use them, how to keep them safe, and how to make them reliable enough for real applications.