Deep Agents

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Traditional LLM agents that simply call tools in a loop are limited in handling complex, long-term tasks. Deep agents overcome these limitations through four key components: detailed system prompts with examples, planning tools (like todo lists), sub-agents for task decomposition, and file systems for context management. Applications like Claude Code, Deep Research, and Manus demonstrate this architecture's effectiveness. The author introduces an open-source 'deepagents' package that implements these patterns, making it easier to build specialized deep agents for specific domains.

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