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smolagents

Hugging Face's minimal agent library — agents that write Python code as their reasoning.

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LanguagePython
LicenseApache-2.0
Last push06/10/2026
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Features

  • Code-as-action paradigm (vs JSON tool calls)
  • ~1k lines core — readable in an afternoon
  • Transformers, LiteLLM, OpenAI backends
  • Hub-native: share agents as HF repos
  • Web browser tool and doc builders built in

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Learning agent internalsQuick HF-model agentsResearch prototypes
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