"AI agent" gets thrown around so much I figured I should just build one instead of reading more threads about it. The core idea turned out to be small: you put Claude in a loop and hand it some tools. It picks a tool, you run it, you hand back the result, and it keeps going until it has an answer.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/venkatarahul27/i-built-an-ai-agent-with-claudes-tool-use-loop-web-search-sql-and-more-885)