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Smolagents

Verified Sep 2026

A Simple Framework for Building AI Agents

A lightweight open-source agent framework from Hugging Face. Simple, focused on code-generating agents and tool use. Pythonic and minimal.

Hugging Face's minimal agent library: code-writing agents (actions as Python code instead of JSON blobs) in ~1,000 lines of core. Lightweight, model-agnostic, with an open honestly-simple design that makes agent mechanics legible. The educational-yet-practical entry in the Python agent space.

Who it's for

Developers who want a minimal HF-native library for code-writing AI agents in about a thousand lines.

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