---
title: "llm_agents"
type: "tool"
slug: "mpaepper-llm-agents"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/mpaepper-llm-agents"
github_url: "https://github.com/mpaepper/llm_agents"
homepage_url: "https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/intelligent-agents-guided-by-llms/"
stars: 1050
forks: 85
primary_language: "Python"
license: "MIT"
archived: false
categories: ["ai-agents", "llm-frameworks"]
tags: ["deep-learning", "langchain", "llms", "machine-learning", "python"]
updated_at: "2026-07-11T10:53:36.016518+00:00"
---

# llm_agents

> Build agents which are controlled by LLMs

Build agents which are controlled by LLMs

## Facts

- Repository: https://github.com/mpaepper/llm_agents
- Homepage: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/intelligent-agents-guided-by-llms/
- Stars: 1,050 · Forks: 85 · Open issues: 3 · Watchers: 9
- Primary language: Python
- License: MIT
- Last pushed: 2025-06-23T14:01:18+00:00

## Trust & health

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## Categories

- [AI Agents](/categories/ai-agents.md)
- [LLM Frameworks](/categories/llm-frameworks.md)

## Tags

deep-learning, langchain, llms, machine-learning, python

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## README (excerpt)

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````text
## LLM Agents

Small library to build agents which are controlled by large language models (LLMs) which is heavily inspired by <a href="https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/" target="_blank">langchain</a>.

The goal was to get a better grasp of how such an agent works and understand it all in very few lines of code.

Langchain is great, but it already has a few more files and abstraction layers, so I thought it would be nice to build the most important parts of a simple agent from scratch.

Some more infos are in <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35446171">this Hacker News discussion from April 5th 2023</a> and the <a href="https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/intelligent-agents-guided-by-llms/">related blog post</a>.

### How it works

The agent works like this:

* It gets instructed by a prompt which tells it the basic way to solve a task using tools
* Tools are custom build components which the agent can use
    * So far, I've implemented the ability to execute Python code in a REPL, to use the Google search and to search on Hacker News
* The agent runs in a loop of Thought, Action, Observation, Thought, ...
    * The Thought and Action (with the Action Input to the action) are the parts which are generated by an LLM
    * The Observation is generated by using a tool (for example the print outputs of Python or the text result of a Google search)
* The LLM gets the new information appended to the prompt in each loop cycle and thus can act on that information
* Once the agent has enough information it provides the final answer

For more details on how it works, check out <a href="https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/intelligent-agents-guided-by-llms/">this blog post</a>

### How to use it

You can install this library locally by running: 

```
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
```

inside it's directory after cloning it.

You also need to provide the following env variables:

* `OPENAI_API_KEY` to use the OpenAI API (obtainable at: https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys)
* `SERPAPI_API_KEY` to use the Google Search in case you use that tool (obtainable at: https://serpapi.com/)

You can simply export them in bash like: `export OPENAI_API_KEY='sh-lsdf....'`

Then you can run the script `python run_agent.py` and ask your question.

To construct your own agent do it like this:

```python
from llm_agents import Agent, ChatLLM, PythonREPLTool, HackerNewsSearchTool, SerpAPITool

agent = Agent(llm=ChatLLM(), tools=[PythonREPLTool(), SerpAPITool(), HackerNewsSearchTool()])
result = agent.run("Your question to the agent")

print(f"Final answer is {result}")
```

Of course, you can also build your custom tools or omit tools, for exmaple if you don't want to create a SERPAPI key.
````

---

**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/mpaepper-llm-agents`](/api/graphcanon/tools/mpaepper-llm-agents)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

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