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Any API, database query, web search engine, calculator, or file reader that you expose to the LLM via code wrappers.
How to Build Autonomous AI Agents from Scratch
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An LLM-based system that can plan its own execution steps, call external tools, and adapt its behavior to achieve a goal.
Reasoning and Acting—a paradigm where the model alternates between writing thoughts and executing actions to solve problems.
Set a hard cap on iterations (e.g., max 10 loops) and track tool execution timeouts in your application code.
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