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How AI tool calling works (40 lines of vanilla JavaScript)


Lesson 2 of the free buttercup.sh agent course: the twenty-line loop that turns a chat model into an agent, working JavaScript and Python, what each turn costs in tokens, and an exercise you run in the browser.

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