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What are agents? (Hugging Face Agents Course)
Hugging Face · huggingface.co
A free course unit that explains an agent as a model that reasons, plans and acts through tools, with simple diagrams.
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- The clearest primary definition: workflows run on predefined code paths, agents let the model direct its own process and tools,... anthropic.com Guide Building effective agents Anthropic
- OpenAI's guide to what an agent is (model, tools, instructions), when one is worth building, and the guardrails it needs. cdn.openai.com Guide A practical guide to building agents (PDF) OpenAI
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AI Agents, Clearly Explained
Jeff Su
- IBM's plain-language guide to how agents plan, use tools and remember, with business examples. ibm.com Guide AI agents IBM
- Google's explainer, with a table separating agents, assistants and bots by how much they decide on their own. cloud.google.com Article What are AI agents? Google Cloud
- A current consumer example: hand Claude a report from any conversation and it keeps working after you close the laptop. claude.com Article Cowork and chat are now one Claude Anthropic
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