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By the developers of Gatsby is a minus, not a plus makes me think this is going to be the next abandonware.
However, the Gatsby CMS had a couple of things that were really interesting about it - especially runtime type safety through GraphQL and doing headless WordPress.
I don’t really understand agents. I just don’t get why we need to pretend we have multiple personalities, especially when they’re all using the same model. Can anyone please give me a usecase, that couldn’t be solved with a single API call to a modern LLM (capable of multi-step planning/reasoning) and a proper prompt? Or is this really just about building the prompt, and giving the LLM closer guidance by splitting in…
If you ignore the word "agent" and autocomplete it in your mind to "step", things will make more sense. Here is an example-- I highlight physical books as I read them with a red pen. Sometimes my highlights are underlines, sometimes I bracket relevant text. I also write some comments in the margins. I want to photograph relevant pages and get the highlights and my comments into plain text. If I send an image of a hig…
Anthropic does a good job of breaking down some common architecture around using these components [1] (good outline of this if you prefer video [2]).
"Agent" is definitely an overloaded term - the best framing of this I've seen is aligns more closely with the Anthropic definition. Specifically, an "agent" is a GenAI system that dynamically identifies the tasks ("steps" from the parent comment) without having to be instructed that those are the steps. There are obvious parallels to the reasoning capabilities that we've seen released in the latest cut of the foundation models.
So for example, the "Agent" would first build a plan for how to address the query, dynamically farm out the steps in that plan to other LLM calls, and then evaluate execution for correctness/success.
[1] https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGdZ2SnrKFU
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Thanks for sharing! It's so helpful to hear real world experiences like this. Would you be interested in meeting up on a call sometime? I'd love to chat about how you're using MCP to help inform how we can make all of this easier for folks. We're actively thinking about our APIs for tool use and MCP right now.
I appreciate the offer but I think you'll probably find someone better to talk to here in the comments. MCP is super cool and I've loved playing with it but playing with it is all I'm doing. I'm working on some tools to use in my $dayJob and also just using it as an excuse to learn about LLMs and play with new tech. Most my work is writing tools that connect our to our distributed fleet of servers to collect data, ru…
i am very long on TS as the future of agent applications. nice work team
This is like 5% of the work. The developer needs to fill the other 95% which involves a lot more things that are strictly outside of scope of the framework.
This looks awesome! Quick question, are there plans to support SSE MCP servers? I see Stdio [0] are supported and I can always run a proxy but SSE would be awesome. [0] https://mastra.ai/docs/reference/tools/client
I don't want to be that person but there are hundreds of other similar frameworks doing more or less the same thing. Do you know why? Because writing a framework that orchestrates a number of tools with a model is the easy part. In fact, most of the time you don't even need a framework. All of these framework focus on the trivial and you can tell that simply by browsing the examples section. This is like 5% of the wo…
And here’s a fun exercise: ask Claude via Cursor or Perplexity with R1 to create a basic agentic framework for you in your language of choice on top of Instructor.
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If you ignore the word "agent" and autocomplete it in your mind to "step", things will make more sense. Here is an example-- I highlight physical books as I read them with a red pen. Sometimes my highlights are underlines, sometimes I bracket relevant text. I also write some comments in the margins. I want to photograph relevant pages and get the highlights and my comments into plain text. If I send an image of a hig…
To add some color to this Anthropic does a good job of breaking down some common architecture around using these components [1] (good outline of this if you prefer video [2]). "Agent" is definitely an overloaded term - the best framing of this I've seen is aligns more closely with the Anthropic definition. Specifically, an "agent" is a GenAI system that dynamically identifies the tasks ("steps" from the parent commen…
Very excited about Mastra! We have a number of Agent-ic things we'll be building at ElectricSQL and Mastra looks like a breath of fresh air. Also the team is top-notch — Sam was my co-founder at Gatsby and I worked closely with Shane and Abhi and I have a ton of confidence in their product & engineering abilities.