# Agent Guide: Agents

This directory covers building autonomous agents, not using agent products.

## Scope

- Include agent patterns, tool use, planning, memory, orchestration, evaluation, and hardening.
- Use `[paper]`, `[provider-doc]`, or `[tested]`.
- Put agent product reviews, IDE assistants, and frameworks as tools under `extensions/` or `tools/`.

## Entry Guidance

- Ground technique claims in papers or official provider docs.
- Explain what the pattern changes in the agent loop.
- Keep pages useful to builders: APIs, protocols, eval methodology, and failure modes matter more than anecdotes.
- Update `agents/README.md` when adding a page.