AI Agents

Models that plan, call tools, and act in a loop — plus the SDKs that make it tractable.

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Building effective agents

Listed inWhat are AI Agents?AI Agentson

Anthropic on the difference between workflows and agents, five composable patterns, and why most teams should start with the simplest thing that works.

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Anthropic · anthropic.com
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#patterns

Claude Agent SDK

Listed inClaude Agent SDKAI Agentson

Writing the agent loop is straightforward; the harness supplies what surrounds it. Context management, sessions, permissions, and the file and shell tools an agent needs are what adopting the SDK gives you.

Intermediate4 min
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Tools & Function Calling

Listed inTools & Function CallingAI Agentson

The model chooses a tool from its description alone, and every declaration is billed on every request whether or not it is called. Assume any tool with a side effect will be invoked twice.

Intermediate4 min
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Modus

Listed inModusAI Agentson

The repository is archived and read-only, last pushed in September 2025. The idea worth keeping is the sandboxed WebAssembly module, which bounds what an agent can touch in a way importing a library does not.

Intermediate3 min
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Google ADK

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Google's Agent Development Kit for building and evaluating agents.

Intermediate5 minDraft
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