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THE CODE-ONLY AGENT

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Building an agent can be overwhelming. The ecosystem pushes developers toward complexity and the 'right' way to do things. This post explores a prompting pattern where agents create and run code as a response to every prompt. In this framework, agents can't do anything productive without writing code. This method produces a code witness of an answer, codifying the work in a very literal sense. It forces agents to produce proofs, run proofs, and interpret proof results.