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Re: New tools for building agents

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Post by ggnore7452 »

swyx wrote: post #4

swyx here. we got some preview and time with the API/DX team to ask FAQs about all the new APIs. https://latent.space/p/openai-agents-platform main fun part - since responses are stored for free by default now, how can we abuse the Responses API as a database :) other fun qtns that a HN crew might enjoy: - hparams for websearch - depth/breadth of search for making your own DIY Deep Research - now that OAI is offering…

appreciate the question on hparams for websearch!

one of the main reasons i build these ai search tools from scratch is that i can fully control the depth and breadth (and also customize loader to whatever data/sites). and currently the web search isn't very transparent on what sites they do not have full text or just use snippets.

having computer use + websearch is definitely something very powerful (openai's deep research essentially)

Re: New tools for building agents

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Post by Areibman »

Nice to finally see one of the labs throwing weight behind a much needed simple abstraction. It's clear they learned from the incumbents (langchain et al)-- don't sell complexity.

Also very nice of them to include extensible tracing. The AgentOps integration is a nice touch to getting behind the scenes to understand how handoffs and tool calls are triggered

Re: New tools for building agents

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Post by ilaksh »

The Agents SDK they linked to comes up 404.

BTW I have something somewhat similar to some of this like Responses and File Search in MindRoot by using the task API: https://github.com/runvnc/mindroot/blob/main/api.md

Which could be combined with the query_kb tool from the mr_kb plugin (in my mr_kb repo) which is actually probably better than File Search because it allows searching multiple KBs.

Anyway, if anyone wants to help with my program, create a plugin on PR, or anything, feel free to connect on GitHub, email or Discord/Telegram (runvnc).

Re: New tools for building agents

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Post by 3stripe »

baxtr wrote: post #5

A bit off topic but the post comes handy: can we settle the debate what an agent really is? It seems like everyone has their own definition. Ok I’ll start: an agent is a computer program that utilized LLMs heutiger for decision making.

First rule of writing definitions: use everyday English.
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