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What's the difference between a simple tool-calling chatbot and an 'agent'?

A simple tool-calling bot does one round: user asks, model optionally calls one tool, model answers. An agent runs a loop — plan, act (call a tool), observe the result, and decide whether to act again or produce a final answer — potentially chaining many tool calls and reasoning steps autonomously until it decides the task is complete.

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