How (and Why) to Build an AI Agent from Scratch in Python

The article demonstrates how to construct a minimal AI agent entirely in plain Python, leveraging the Anthropic API for all LLM interactions. It walks through initializing the client, crafting a prompt loop, and managing conversation state without external frameworks, illustrating a clean, dependency‑free baseline. The tutorial highlights the trade‑off of manual state handling versus the convenience of higher‑level libraries, and shows how to integrate the agent into existing Python

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