Components of A Coding Agent
Sebastian Raschka, PhD
Components of A Coding Agent
How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice
In this article, I want to cover the overall design of coding agents and agent harnesses: what they are, how they work, and how the different pieces fit together in practice. Readers of my Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) and Build a Large Reasoning Model (From Scratch) books often ask about agents, so I thought it would be useful to write a reference I can point...