LLM Powered Autonomous Agents
by Lilian Weng
Classic overview of planning, memory and tool use in agents.
This overview brings together research on memory, planning and tool use in language-model agents. Follow its references to understand where an architectural idea came from and what remains uncertain.
- Level
- Advanced
- Models
- any
- Category
- Agents and harnesses
- Tags
- survey
- Source date
- 2023-06-23
- Added
- 2026-10-18
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
- Status
- ok
- Prerequisites
- Requires implementation experience or critical reading of technical methods and system trade-offs.
- Subcategory
- agent design patterns
- Region
- West
- Original language
- en
- Access
- free
- Resource reuse
- closed: No general open-reuse grant established from the inspected page. Closed is the conservative index bucket, not a legal finding; the resource is publicly readable. Facet definitions
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