Atlas

Harness Engineering

Agents & Tool Use

Wrapping a model in a loop that can act on the world.

You can jump straight in, but this star assumes The Model Landscape. Not recommended as a first stop.

Four layers of depth

Each layer ends with a quiz. Finish layer 4 and you own this concept.

  1. L1IntuitionWhat an LLM agent is, why tools turn a text predictor into something that can act, and the buzzwords decoded.5m
    40 XP
  2. L2MechanicsThe mechanics of the agent loop: tool schemas, the ReAct trace, memory, and how the loop terminates.8m
    70 XP
  3. L3CodeImplement a minimal tool-calling agent loop: schema definition, dispatch, and the observe-act cycle.12m
    110 XP
  4. L4FoundationsReliability as a formal object: compounding step error, planning as search, and evaluating agents statistically.15m
    180 XP

33 stars in the atlas.