Sarah Lea<p>What is an agent?<br />That’s what Day 3 of Kaggle’s Gen AI Challenge is all about.</p><p>:blobcoffee: An agent is a system that observes its environment, plans actions, uses tools like APIs, functions, or data stores, and acts autonomously to achieve a goal – often over multiple steps (see whitepaper from Google below).</p><p>The cognitive architecture of an agent consists of three essential components:<br />🧠 a model (like a language model),<br />🔧 tools (like APIs or functions), and<br />🎯 an orchestration layer that coordinates reasoning and action.</p><p>You can build such agents using tools like LangChain and LangGraph.</p><p>The full whitepaper from course day 3: <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-agents" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">kaggle.com/whitepaper-agents</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/agenticAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>agenticAI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>genai</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ki" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ki</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/kaggle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>kaggle</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/langchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>langchain</span></a></p>