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An agent that uses tools — calculator, datetime, and Wikipedia — to answer questions it can’t answer from training data alone, with a visible reasoning trace and a max-iterations guard so it can’t loop forever. This is the conceptual shift from “LLM that responds” to “LLM that acts” — every agent project after this one builds on the loop you implement here.

Tool-calling agents are the foundation of 'AI agent' roles now appearing across the industry — this is the entry point into agentic AI engineering specifically.