Agents in 60 lines of python : Part 1

The Agent Function Lesson 1 of 9 - A Tour of Agents Every time you send a message to ChatGPT, Claude, or any LLM - your app makes one HTTP POST request and gets a response back. That's it. No magic. No framework. One function. This is where agents start. What is an agent, really? Strip away the buzzwords and an AI agent is a pipeline with four steps: Your message → agent → POST /completions → Response Your message goes in. A function wraps it into the right format. An HTTP call goes out. A response comes back. That flow diagram is the entire architecture of Lesson 1.