Agents & Tool Use
Function calling, ReAct loops, MCP, agent memory architectures and evaluation harnesses.
10concepts
51flashcards
85minutes of reading
- 01 Agent Frameworks Compared LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and the OpenAI Agents SDK solve different problems; the harder question is whether you need a framework at all.
- 02 Model Context Protocol (MCP) The open standard that replaces bespoke per-tool integrations with one protocol, so any compliant client can talk to any compliant server.
- 03 Planning and Task Decomposition in Agents Why an LLM that reasons well step by step still fails to produce a valid multi-step plan, and how decomposition, external planners, and replanning close the gap.
- 04 Tool Use and Function Calling How models invoke external tools to fetch data, run code, and take actions in the world.