From Primitives to Production: How Anthropic Builds Agents
Summary
Anthropic defines agents as LLMs in loops with tool access, leaning on model intelligence over rigid workflows, and uses domain-specific skills, MCPs, and evals to build effective agents across sectors. A demo showed a site reliability agent autonomously identifying a database pool issue, fixing the code, and generating a postmortem.
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