The anatomy of an agent
How an AI agent works internally: context, planning, tools, memory, state, and runtime. A tool call is a contract, not magic.
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The ideas to retain
The minimal loop
The simplest pattern has four steps:
Tool calling: from text to a contract
A tool should not be presented to the model as a vague sentence such as “you can query the system.” It needs an explicit contract:
Context, memory, and state are not the same thing
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