#agents

What Makes an Agent "Deep"?

LangChain has a definition of a "deep agent." I'm intrigued but not sold — thinking out loud about whether the term earns its keep.

Coming Around on Hermes

I was deeply skeptical of anything agent-shaped. Then I put Hermes to work on an old Windows box and a little homelab — and I get it now.

Generator Agent

A single, one-shot LLM call that produces its output directly — no turns, no tool use, no observation loop. Less a formal architecture than a useful counterpoint to the ReAct agent: where ReAct interleaves reasoning and action over many ste…

ReAct Agent

An agent pattern that interleaves reasoning and acting: the model alternates between natural-language 'thoughts' (reasoning traces) and actions (tool calls, queries), feeding each observation back into the next reasoning step. Introduced by…