Tools an Agent Can Use

Lessons in this group, roughly in build order:

  • code-execution-repl — A tool that lets the agent write code (usually Python) and run it in a sandbox, returning stdout, return…
  • web-scraping-crawling — Tools that fetch a web page (scraping) or follow links across many pages (crawling) and return clean,…
  • web-search — A tool that queries a search engine or search API and returns ranked results (title, URL, snippet) so the…
  • database-queries — A tool that lets an agent read (and sometimes write) structured data by issuing queries — typically…
  • file-system-access — Tools that let an agent read, write, list, and search files on disk — the primitive behind coding agents…
  • email-slack-sms — Tools that let an agent send (and sometimes read) messages over human channels — email, Slack/Teams, SMS —…