AI Agents
Five chapters to understand what an AI agent is, how it uses tools, how to evaluate it, which risks it introduces, and what it takes to operate one in production.
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1. What an agent is—and is not
Distinguish a chatbot, workflow, copilot and agent. Move from a model that answers to a system that pursues an objective. Understand autonomy as delegating concrete decisions rather than…
2. The anatomy of an agent
The observe–plan–act–verify loop. Tools, memory, context, state and runtime. Why a tool call is a software contract rather than a magical LLM capability.
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