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- Any assistantagentsHow do I give an AI agent tools like search or file access?You give an agent tools by describing functions to the model and writing the code that runs them when the model asks.
- Any assistantagentsHow do I make an AI agent?To make an AI agent, give a model a goal and a few tools, then run a loop where the model picks an action, your code runs it, and the result goes back to the model until it finishes.
- Any assistantagentsHow do I stop an AI agent from looping forever?Stop loops with hard limits in your code, not just instructions in the prompt.
- Any assistantagentsWhat is an AI agent and how is it different from a chatbot?An AI agent is a system that pursues a goal over several steps, deciding which actions to take, such as searching, reading files or running code.
- Any assistantagentsWhat is MCP, the Model Context Protocol, for AI tools?MCP, short for Model Context Protocol, is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to tools and data sources through a common interface.
- Any assistantagentsWhat is RAG and why do people use it with AI?RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation, means searching your own documents for relevant passages and giving them to the model along with the question, so it answers from real material instead of memory.
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