Guide contents

Tool Calling and Coding Agents

Function calling, the agent loop, file, shell, and web tools, permissions and sandboxing, context engineering, edit formats, small-model reliability, MCP, evaluation, and the loop agent command.

12 lessons

  1. 54.Function Calling from First Principles
  2. 55.The Agent Loop and a Tool Framework
  3. 56.File Tools
  4. 57.The Shell Tool
  5. 58.Web Search and Fetch Tools
  6. 59.Permissions, Sandboxing, and Prompt Injection
  7. 60.Context Engineering for Coding Agents
  8. 61.Edit Formats
  9. 62.Making Small Local Models Reliable
  10. 63.Workshop: loop agent
  11. 64.The Model Context Protocol
  12. 65.Evaluating Models and Agents