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- Agentic AIAI agent frameworkAI agent frameworks explained: reusable agent control flow, what they provide, and how to choose one without lock-in.
- Agentic AIAI agent SDKAI agent SDK explained: what an agent SDK supplies, how it differs from a framework, and what to assess before adopting one.
- Agentic AIAutoGenAutoGen explained: the conversational multi-agent design, why Microsoft moved to Agent Framework, and what the ideas still teach.
- Agentic AIClaude Agent SDKClaude Agent SDK explained: Claude Code as a library, what you get in the harness, and where the Claude-native boundary sits.
- Agentic AICrewAICrewAI explained: role-based agent crews, the Flows layer underneath them, and when the opinionated abstraction is the right fit.
- Agentic AIDSPyDSPy explained: signatures, modules, and optimizers that compile prompts automatically, and when to program a model instead of prompting it.
- Agentic AIGoogle ADKGoogle ADK explained: the code-first agent framework, its hierarchical multi-agent design, and how it compares with LangGraph and other toolkits.
- Agentic AIHaystackHaystack explained: deepset's typed pipeline architecture, its retrieval-first heritage, agent support, and when it beats looser frameworks.
- Agentic AIHermes AgentHermes Agent explained: Nous Research's current agent runtime, its skills and execution environments, and the operational controls to assess.
- Agentic AILangChainLangChain explained: what the framework does, how LangGraph and LangSmith extend it, and Soba's Ambassador status.
- Agentic AILangGraphLangGraph explained: nodes, edges, cycles, and interrupts, and how it differs from a plain LangChain chain.
- Agentic AIMastraMastra explained: the TypeScript agent framework with workflows, memory, and evals built in, and when to choose it over lighter SDKs.
- Agentic AIMicrosoft Agent FrameworkMicrosoft Agent Framework explained: current language scope, Go public preview, and its relationship to AutoGen and Semantic Kernel.
- Agentic AIOpenAI Agents SDKOpenAI Agents SDK explained: its primitives, how it compares with LangGraph and CrewAI, and when the minimal loop is the right choice.
- Agentic AIOpenClawOpenClaw explained: the self-hosted gateway for chat-connected agents, its current channel and tool capabilities, and key security checks.
- Agentic AIPydantic AIPydantic AI explained: validated outputs, typed tools, the FastAPI style design, and when it beats heavier agent frameworks.
- Agentic AISemantic KernelSemantic Kernel explained: the plugin middleware model, its enterprise .NET fit, how it relates to Microsoft Agent Framework, and when to choose it.
- Agentic AIsmolagentssmolagents explained: Hugging Face's tiny library, why writing actions as code beats JSON tool calls, and when minimal wins.
- Agentic AIStrands AgentsStrands Agents explained: AWS's model-agnostic agent SDK, its Amazon production lineage, and what its download curve says.
- Agentic AIVercel AI SDKVercel AI SDK explained: one typed API over every model provider, streaming chat interfaces, and how it differs from full agent frameworks.