What are tools and agents? When the AI starts doing things

Lesson 8 of how the AI thinks: a model on its own can only write text. Tools let it ask your app to act, and agents decide their own next step. What… Aliteq Sam Ortega · Build Editor

A tool call is the model asking your app to run something

An agent chooses its own next steps and tools

Tools act with your permissions, so limit and approve them

An agent acts with your permissions. Give coding agents a test database, not your real one, and approve anything that deletes or deploys. For agents that read messages from strangers, see the…

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