Title: Inside an LLM Agent: A From-Scratch Walkthrough
Date: June 4, 2026
Duration: 1HR
Speaker: Val Andrei Fajardo
Everybody’s talking about AI agents. But what’s actually inside one when you strip away the framework?
In this talk, Val Andrei Fajardo (author of the upcoming Manning Publications book, Build a Multi-Agent System (From Scratch) and ex-founding engineer at LlamaIndex) walks through the internals of an LLM agent from scratch. No CrewAI, no LangGraph, no black boxes. Just the raw building blocks: tool abstraction, the agent processing loop, MCP integration, and the Agent Skills open standard (plus a sneak peek at the upcoming memory chapter).
Through live examples, you’ll see exactly what’s happening under the hood of the agent clients you use every day, and how to build it yourself.
Additional Resources:
Agentic AI Mastery (free Percipio course for ACM Members with Skills Bundle)
Designing a personalized agent with AgentGPT Templates (free Percipio course for ACM Members with Skills Bundle)
AI Agents in Action (free Percipio book for ACM Members with Skills Bundle)
Agentforce: Harnessing the Agency of AI to Scale, Grow, and Lead Any Industry (free Percipio book for ACM Members with Skills Bundle)