Agent Frameworks vs Writing the Loop Yourself

The argument is usually framed as build versus buy, which is the wrong frame for something you can write in an afternoon. The loop is eighty lines. The question is what surrounds it, and whether somebody else’s answer to that fits the shape of your problem. This page names capabilities rather than products deliberately. The libraries move quickly enough that a feature comparison written today is misleading by the time it is read; the categories below have been stable for years and will decide…