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Overview

This tutorial walks through building an agent in iii in three pieces: the functions the agent calls as tools, the loop that drives its think-act-observe cycle, and the memory it carries between turns. By the end you'll have a working agent worker you can extend with your own tools.

Define tools

Register the functions the agent can call as tools.

Orchestration loop

Drive the agent's think-act-observe cycle until the task is done.

Memory and state

Persist conversation history and intermediate state between agent turns.