Studio experiment E01 · v1, built
What an agent is:
each step added reach.
1
A chat model
answers in a box: text in, text out
2
One tool
it can look something up
3
Many tools
files, a shell, a browser, mail
4
The loop
it acts, looks at the result, acts again
5
Integrated
our accounts, tokens, other systems
6
Agents calling agents
today's agentic flows
model
one tool
many tools
the loop
accounts · tokens · systems
other agents
"LLMs using tools based on environmental feedback in a loop."
Anthropic, Building effective agents. A sketch: the steps in order, without dates; ring sizes are illustrative.