As we see our goals for Drupal AI innovation under responsible human guidance flourishing at such a remarkable pace, we recognize a growing community need for practical, responsible ways to learn it. We’re excited to announce, as part of our efforts to fill that need, AI Inside Drupal Essentials (AIDE,) developed and presented by DrupalEasy, as the official training program of the Drupal AI Initiative. 

We’ve partnered with Drupal expert developer and highly respected trainer Mike Anello (ultimike) to ensure the program supports our mission to drive responsible AI innovation and build on Drupal’s position as the leading open-source content management system for AI integration. Mike and the team at DrupalEasy have the commitment and experience to create, maintain and present the curriculum with our standard for ethical, powerful, and accessible AI in the open-source world.

AIDE

AIDE is designed to help you move forward quickly and confidently with a solid foundation in how to conscientiously take advantage of Drupal AI benefits. The 2-week, 18-hour curriculum is presented on a timetable designed to integrate well into work schedules; meeting live, online for 3 hours every other day. The first session kicks off on November 9, 2026 and runs through November 20th. Additional sessions will be announced in the coming weeks.

In addition to DrupalEasy’s signature lively, online classes; each class session is recorded and becomes part of the video library that participants have lifetime access to. Other resources included as part of the course is a dedicated Slack channel and more than 100 pages of technical guides and implementation tools. The cost to register is $600.

Learn risk mitigation & human oversight

Mike Anello, who has meticulously developed hundreds of hours of Drupal curriculum and trained Drupal developers for more than 20 years, has created another stellar program that leads you, hands-on, through admin-facing responsible AI techniques that prioritize workflows that keep a human in the loop to review AI-generated suggestions before they are saved to the database. From class to class, you'll move from secure foundations to advanced agentic workflows and high-performance retrieval augmented generation (RAG) search, with intensive hands-on examples you can apply to your own Drupal projects right away.

Course content

The course covers four areas:

• AI Foundations: Establish a baseline for secure LLM integration. Configure the AI Automators and Field Widget Actions modules to see how AI output can be reviewed before it's saved.
• AI Agents: Implement agentic workflows and swarm orchestration agents, and deploy tool-calling capabilities that let AI interact directly with Drupal's Tool API.
• RAG Search: Build retrieval augmented generation systems using vector databases, and learn semantic chunking and representation strategies that maximize search accuracy.
• Local AI & Privacy: Deploy local models via Ollama for maximum privacy and cost-efficiency, and use the AI Metering module for automatic local fallback when commercial API quotas are reached.

Our goal, with AIDE and our other learning resources including webinars, workshops, events and the Drupal AI Demo is to make sure everyone who works with Drupal AI can do it safely and effectively.  

Learn more about AI Inside Drupal Essentials training , or ask about the course or AIDE team pricing.