How to Build An Agent

Learn how to create a terminal-based agent using Anthropic's Claude, implement file handling and code generation tools within a simple CLI workflow.

Overview

Inspired by Thorsten Ball’s article on How to Build An Agent, I’ll be demonstrating how anyone can build an agent on their terminal, called with the CLI. We will be using Anthropic’s Claude and have it give us a couple of tools to interact with files and write code.

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