Company
Date Published
Author
David Lee
Word count
3353
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The text explores the concept of AI agents that autonomously create and execute their own tools by writing code, rather than relying on predefined actions or LLM-specific tooling. Using a demo agent built on Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, the article illustrates how an agent can interact with a known API, such as Stripe, to perform tasks like listing customers by email, updating customer details, adding payment cards, and charging customers. The agent starts with a basic toolset to request user input, show options, and create new tools, and it progressively develops more sophisticated capabilities by generating code in response to user requests. The demonstration emphasizes the potential for agents to bootstrap their skills dynamically and highlights the possibility of enabling agents to modify their tools for continuous improvement, akin to the Skill Library in the Voyager agent. The discussion concludes by inviting readers to engage further on the topic through a Discord community for ongoing exploration and development.