smolagents Code-First AI Agent Library

smolagents is HuggingFace’s barebones Python library for building AI agents that think in code rather than JSON. Agents write and execute Python code as their action space, enabling more flexible reasoning and tool use with support for sandboxed execution via E2B, Docker, or WebAssembly.

smolagents Code-First AI Agent Library

smolagents is HuggingFace’s barebones Python library for building AI agents that think in code rather than JSON. Agents write and execute Python code as their action space, enabling more flexible reasoning and tool use with support for sandboxed execution via E2B, Docker, or WebAssembly.

Installation

Method 1, Agent Skill Exchange

Method 2, Git clone

git clone https://github.com/agentskillexchange/skills.git && cd skills/skills/smolagents-code-first-ai-agent-library

Method 3, Download ZIP

  • Download the repository ZIP and extract skills/smolagents-code-first-ai-agent-library.

Method 4, Manual copy

  • Copy this skill folder into your local skills directory, then reload your agent tooling.

Method 5, Fork and sync

  • Fork the repository if you want to maintain local edits while syncing upstream changes.

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