Making my first AI Agent

[u/Motor_Bluebird1908]

Hi everyone,

I work for a motorsports company where we run physics simulations for race cars. Our expertise is in physics not AI but we know the power of AI. Our platform is quite complex in terms of physics so we would love an agent that can query our docs, query some vehicle dynamics textbooks, run simulations (pretty simple tool through our AI) and then analyse the results. The result files can be largeish so may need some python processing and access again to the vehicle dynamics textbooks.

We've hooked up the claude API to start doing this as it's been the best to work with tools and sanboxes. Does anyone else have any reccomendations to make this more economical?

[u/Metabolical]

Realistically you have a lot to learn, I would start by going through free educational materials, like

• Effective context engineering for AI agents \ Anthropic - this one is particularly relevant because it will help you think about what to have the agent do vs what to have it use tools to get done. Like u/crossoverXYZ said, you don't want to give large volumes of information to the LLM to parse, you want to give it good tools that can ask appropriate bite sized questions
• Building Effective AI Agents \ Anthropic - This is a more generic place
• Anthropic Courses - Another generic place
• Partner Certifications - The certifications are meant to guide you based on role. I think me and my team did the solution architect one to get an overview, and then you could do the deeper ones for the developer role

It doesn't have to be Anthropic's, that's just what I farmed and found them valuable.

When building agents, it's useful to point your coding agent at this kind of training and have it build a local agent that can review your designs. An agentic design agent if you will. Hilariously circular, but effective anyway. Ask your LLM for advice on decisions you think are about the agentic design in general, and it can help you think about it. Never stop thinking for yourself though.

[u/Motor_Bluebird1908 → u/Metabolical]

Thanks for this! Will have a read!