Getting Started with AI Agents — Building a ReAct Agent from Scratch
Give LLMs tools and let them think and act on their own with the ReAct pattern. Build an agent from scratch in pure Python, then evolve it with structured Tool Calling.
Getting Started with AI Agents — Making LLMs Act with the ReAct Pattern
Ask ChatGPT "What's the weather in Seoul right now?" and you get: "I don't have access to real-time information." But an Agent would call a weather API, interpret the result, and answer in natural language. This difference is what separates chatbots from agents.
In this post, we will understand the ReAct pattern — the most fundamental building block of agents — implement it from scratch in pure Python, and then explore why it evolved into Tool Calling.
Series: Part 1 (this post) | Part 2: LangGraph + Reflection | Part 3: MCP + Multi-Agent | Part 4: Production Deployment
Chatbot vs Agent: What's the Difference?
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