About How to Create an AI Agent

How to Create an AI Agent is a technical how-to for building a first AI agent. It covers what an agent is, a minimal tool-calling loop in Python, how the common frameworks differ, the no-code route, how tools and the Model Context Protocol work, and how to test an agent and limit what it can do.

We wrote it for two readers: someone who can read a little code and wants to see the whole mechanism before choosing a framework, and someone who cannot code and needs to know what a visual builder is doing on their behalf. Statements about a product link to that vendor’s own documentation, and a recommendation of something we make is labelled as ours. The code follows the providers’ official documentation as of the date shown on each page. APIs and model names change, so check the linked docs before relying on a detail.

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How to Create an AI Agent (howtocreateanaiagent.com) is written and published by General Action, the company that makes Emdash, a product for running AI coding agents. This site is not an independent review site: it is our publication, and Emdash is our product.

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