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beginnerr/learnAIAgents · Oct 25, 2026

How AI agents work: from a user request to a tool call

The first post in a short practical series explains how AI agents work through a camera-rental example, walking from a user request to a tool call. The request-to-tool-call journey is exactly where beginners get lost, because tutorials often skip the middle steps. A useful next step for the series would be a failed tool call, since handling errors is where agents get genuinely interesting.

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