How AI Agents Work - How AI Agents Work

Learn the theory behind agent systems and build intuition for local, open-source implementations.

What this site is

This site is a bilingual companion to theaiagentsbook.com. It contains structured fragments (chapters) that you can read as standalone articles, with clear URLs and chapter roadmap.

The core promise

Explain agent systems in plain, technical language (no black boxes)
Show how components fit together (models, loop, tools, memory)
Keep everything reproducible on your own machine / VM

Chapters roadmap

Chapter 0 — Introduction (Not written yet)
Chapter 1 — Foundations (Not written yet)
Chapter 2 — How Models Work (Deep)
Chapter 3 — System Architecture (Not written yet)
Chapter 4 — Environment & Setup (Not written yet)
Chapter 5 — The Agent Loop (Deep)
Chapter 6 — Tool Systems (Partially deep)
Chapter 7 — Memory & Retrieval (Deep)
Chapter 8 — Planning & Decomposition (Deep, recently rewritten)
Chapter 9 — Multi-Agent Systems (Not written yet)
Chapter 10 — Advanced Systems & Production (Not written yet)