From the course: Agentic AI for Developers: Concepts and Application for Enterprises
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Tools in agentic AI
From the course: Agentic AI for Developers: Concepts and Application for Enterprises
Tools in agentic AI
- [Narrator] We talked about tools while discussing the orchestrator and the executor. Let's dive deeper into tools in this video. A tool in agentic AI can be just a software procedure, a microservice, or a cloud service. A tool provides a specific service to the agent. It helps the agent to execute an action with an external entity. The action could be retrieving information or performing changes on the external entity. There are several types of tools that can be used in an agent. Any service or application that can be integrated with can become a potential tool. Tools can be knowledge basis like retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG systems. This can be used to perform semantic searches to retrieve relevant documents. It could be databases. The tool can provide, create, retrieve, update, delete operations on data in the database. A tool could be a software function. The function can perform a simple computation on more complex integrations. A function takes inputs and returns…
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