MindTechLabs is an AI-centric company building production-grade Azure AI solutions — and turning every lesson learned into free, practical education for the developer community.
We pioneered the ETCLOVG Agent Harness — a seven-layer infrastructure taxonomy for building reliable AI agents. From Execution isolation to Governance audit trails, explore the architecture that makes agents production-ready.
Five domains, each an explorable mind map. Learn the concept, prove it in scenarios, then sit a timed exam simulation — 60 questions, 120 minutes, pass mark 720/1000 on the real thing.
A full exam simulator at real exam complexity — multiple choice, drag-and-drop and case studies across all 13 domains, with 0–1000 Pearson VUE-like scoring and MindTips explanations.
Seven layers. One architecture. Click any node to explore what it does in production.
Read the full research →Every concept explained from first principles, with real code you can run, analogies that stick, and examples that mirror real production scenarios.
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From "what's a token?" to building your first agent — covering reasoning, tool use, memory, and why agents are different from plain API calls.
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Hub → Project → Agent Service explained. Blueprints, sponsors, conditional access, Key Vault patterns — everything you need to govern agents properly.
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Content Safety categories, severity thresholds, input/output filtering code, prompt injection attacks, red teaming — the complete safety toolkit.
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GPT-5 vs PHI-3 Mini — latency, cost, capability trade-offs. Build a hybrid routing pattern that's 10x cheaper with the same user experience.
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The 5-step RAG pattern with full Python code. Azure AI Search setup, embedding models, relevance scores, and why grounding context must come first.
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Build agent teams that collaborate. The 3 orchestration patterns with real code — including the handoff OpenAI tool pattern and reasoning loop fix.
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LLMs are stateless — here's how to give them memory. Redis setx vs set, Cosmos DB upsert_item, hybrid pattern, and sliding window truncation.
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The 3-step flow explained. Define tools as JSON schemas, handle tool_calls vs content, parallel execution, idempotency, and security validation.