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What software/framework are you using for creating/orchestrating agent systems? I tried smolagents for a while but my results were clearly less good than just formatting my query nicely and giving it to a normal LLM.
Enough people I trust are getting good results with agents that I want to look into it more, but would very much appreciate any advice you can give.
At work we're stuck with VS code/github copilot which is not ideal but allows customizing/spawnimg subagents and tool calls which is the big requirement. Agents themselves aren't a big deal, they're essentially just custom prompts, they become important for being created as sub agents to isolate tasks to narrow contexts. There's some customization to your own env you should do but you can just start by asking Claude/gpt to spin up some basic ones that you can tweak over time. Basically any time I notice it get stuck or need to guess and check a bunch I have it makes some tweaks to the documentation. I'm cooking up a method to automate that process. Where I'd spend my time first is making some guide files for your code base. Putting together some easily greppable documents outlining our database schema greatly improved its ability to interact with it.
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