Agents
Picking up from tool calling to build real agents.
Slides
Outline
- (20m) Building an agent
- The definition we use: an agent is an LLM with a read tool and a write tool
- Reference: Hadleyβs series on Substack, in particular What is an agent? and A coding agent is six functions in a trenchcoat
- Your Turn
_exercises/19_agent-1: build a simple coding agent with a read tool and a write tool - Your Turn
_exercises/20_agent-2: give the agent more tools (list files, edit files)
- The definition we use: an agent is an LLM with a read tool and a write tool
Further reading
- A coding agent is six functions in a trenchcoat β build a minimal coding agent in R with ellmer, one tool at a time.