Hugging Face Training Agents series: post-training coding agents
Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-09-13 · Open on X
Topics: Fine-tuning & Model Customization, AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP, Evaluation (Evals) & Testing · Level: advanced
Summary
The creator recommends Hugging Face's finished Training Agents series for learning how to post-train models for coding agents. It has six live sessions over six months, from evaluating agents to training them in real environments. All recordings are on the Hugging Face YouTube channel and all the code is open.
Key points
- Six live sessions over six months.
- Covers the path from evaluating agents to training them inside real environments.
- All sessions are on the Hugging Face YouTube channel.
- All the code is open source.
Resources mentioned
- Training Agents series (Hugging Face) · video · youtube.com · free
Hugging Face live tutorial on fine-tuning a coding agent with its own traces for continual learning.
Also in: Fine-Tune a Model on Your Own Coding Agent Traces (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - Hugging Face YouTube channel · channel · youtube.com · free
Hugging Face's official YouTube channel, which hosts the Training Agents sessions.
Try this
- Watch the Training Agents series on the Hugging Face YouTube channel and work through its open code.
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