Build SAP AI Agents

Go from a bare BTP subaccount to a scoped, tested, governed MCP-based Joule agent running in production — an 8-lesson, hands-on progressive series.

1. 1
   Lesson

   Your BTP Toolbox: What You Need Before You Write a Line

   Lesson 1 — The single most common reason an agent tutorial stalls isn't a bug in the code. It's a missing entitlement discovered forty minutes in. Here's the ten-minute checklist that means you never hit that wall.

2. 2
   Lesson

   Design Before You Code: Scoping One Agent's Job

   Lesson 2 — The most expensive mistake in agent projects happens before anyone writes a line of code: scoping an agent that tries to do everything. Here's how to define one agent's job so precisely that the build itself becomes almost mechanical.

3. 3
   Lesson

   Your First MCP Tool: One Read-Only Capability, Start to Finish

   Lesson 3 — Every safe agent starts the same way: one tool, read-only, zero ability to break anything. Here's exactly how a single MCP tool is put together, using the schema and the runtime-versus-model split you already know from AI Foundations.

4. 4
   Lesson

   Writing Safely: Create, Update & the 'Block, Don't Delete' Pattern

   Lesson 4 — The moment your agent can write, the stakes change completely. Here's the exact pattern that keeps write actions safe — including the SAP-specific gotcha that trips up almost everyone building their first CRUD agent.

5. 5
   Lesson

   Deploying Your MCP Server on BTP Cloud Foundry

   Lesson 5 — Your tools work perfectly on your laptop. Now they need to run somewhere an agent can actually reach them, twenty-four hours a day. Here's the deployment path, and the one BTP setting people forget until the destination silently fails.

6. 6
   Lesson

   Wiring It Into Joule Studio: Instructions, Grounding & Testing

   Lesson 6 — This is the moment your MCP server stops being a standalone service and becomes an actual agent someone can talk to. Instructions, tool discovery, and the one test case that matters more than all the others combined.

7. 7
   Lesson

   From One Tool to a Toolbox: Multi-Tool Agents Without the Multi-Agent Trap

   Lesson 7 — Your agent works with one tool. Someone's about to ask for a second, then a third. Here's how to grow it into a genuine toolbox without accidentally recreating the scope-creep problem you solved back in Lesson 2.

8. 8
   Lesson

   Ship It: The Pre-Launch Checklist

   Lesson 8, the capstone — Your agent works in every test you've thrown at it. That feeling is exactly how every agent that later caused an incident felt the day before launch. Here's the checklist that closes that gap for good.