Agents4Good, UChicago Agentic AI Community

Founded a student-led community for hands-on experimentation with agentic AI at UChicago, with lightning talks, shared workflows, and peer-driven sessions

Overview

Agents4Good is a peer community at the University of Chicago for hands-on experimentation with agentic AI: sharing setups, tools, and what actually works in practice. I founded it in March 2026 to close a gap between coursework on LLMs and agents and the kind of concrete, peer-shared experimentation that actually builds skill.

The aim is to lower the barrier to trying agentic workflows and to let students learn from each other’s real experiments rather than from surveys or hype.

Format

  • Lightning talks: 5 to 10 minute presentations where members share a workflow, tool, or experiment
  • Hands-on exploration with tools like Cursor, Claude (including the Claude Agent SDK and Claude Code), custom agents, and Hugging Face
  • Community-curated resources: shared tutorials, guides, and an Obsidian workspace with session notes
  • Open participation: all UChicago students welcome, no prior expertise required

Structure

The group is student-led and peer-driven rather than hierarchical. As founder, I coordinate logistics (scheduling, room booking, remote access, the WhatsApp community channel) while content and expertise come from rotating members. Agents4Good is explicitly designed to coexist and collaborate with other UChicago student communities, not to compete with them.

Sessions

  • Session 01 (Kickoff): foundational questions about agentic AI: what counts as an agent, what is currently practical, and where evaluation is hard
  • Session 02: AI Agents for Job Applications: Going Practical, a hands-on workflow session
  • Additional sessions ongoing

Infrastructure

  • Public landing site (Next.js on Vercel): agents4good-uchicago.vercel.app
  • Obsidian workspace with session notes and shared resources
  • WhatsApp community for announcements and discussion
  • A companion community-organizing app, currently in development: applied agentic AI solving a real organizing problem