Expanding ADK AI agent capabilities with tools
In a nutshell, the AI agent equation is the following:
AI Agent = LLM + Memory + Planning + Tool Use
AI agents are nothing without tools! And they are actually more than mere Large Language Model calls. They require some memory management to handle the context of the interactions (short term, long term, or contextual information like in the Retrieval Augmented Generation approach. Planning is important (with variations around the Chain-of-Thought prompting approach, and LLM with reasoning or thinking capabilities) for an agent to realize its tasks.
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