🛠️ How to Create Agents in AI – 1-Page
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🔷 What is an AI Agent?
An AI agent is a system that perceives its environment, makes decisions, and performs actions
autonomously to achieve specified goals.
🧩 Core Components of an AI Agent
Component Role
Perception Gathers data from environment (sensors, APIs,
input).
Reasoning / Chooses actions based on goals and state.
Decision-Making
Action Executes commands or outputs to affect
environment.
Memory (State) Stores past actions, inputs, or context.
Learning (Optional) Improves over time via data or feedback.
🧠 Steps to Build an AI Agent
1. Define the Agent’s Goal
● What should the agent accomplish?
● E.g., "Book a flight," "Answer questions," "Navigate a maze."
2. Design the Environment
● Define inputs (what the agent sees).
● Define possible actions (what the agent can do).
● Model states and transitions (optional for complex tasks).
3. Choose an Agent Architecture
● Simple Reflex Agent – Acts on current input only.
● Model-Based Agent – Maintains internal state.
● Goal-Based Agent – Plans actions toward a goal.
● Learning Agent – Improves via feedback (e.g., reinforcement learning).
● LLM Agent – Uses large language models to reason and act (e.g., AutoGPT).
4. Implement Perception
● Use sensors, APIs, or input parsers.
● For LLM agents: use tools like LangChain, OpenAI functions, etc.
5. Decision-Making Logic
● Hard-coded rules (if-else)
● Search/planning (A*, DFS)
● Machine learning models
● LLM reasoning chains (e.g., CoT, ReAct)
6. Action Module
● Output actions to environment (e.g., API call, robot movement).
● For digital agents, this could be browser automation or command execution.
7. (Optional) Add Learning
● Reinforcement learning for reward-driven agents.
● Supervised learning to improve perception or classification.
● Memory modules (e.g., vector DBs) for stateful agents.
🛠️ Tools & Frameworks
Use Case Tools
LLM Agents LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, OpenAI function calling
RL Agents OpenAI Gym, Stable Baselines3, Ray RLlib
Robotics ROS (Robot Operating System), Gazebo
Multi-agent PettingZoo, MARLlib
🔍 Example: LLM Agent Loop
while not goal_achieved:
perception = observe()
plan = llm_chain(perception)
action = execute(plan)
update_memory(perception, plan, action)
✅ Summary
To create an AI agent:
● Define goal, environment, and actions.
● Choose an architecture (reflex, planning, learning, LLM-based).
● Implement perception, reasoning, and action logic.
● Optionally, add memory and learning for smarter behavior.
Agent development combines logic, ML, and interaction design — and can be as simple or
advanced as the use case demands.