Section 2: Agents

Here we move up a gear from line-by-line completion to agents — LLMs that run tools in a loop to complete a task with less hand-holding. You’ll meet the main agent options, see how they work under the hood, confront the security trade-offs head-on, run your first agent on the benthic reef data, and build up a set of prompting habits for keeping an agent on track.

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