smol agents are all you need
Feb 13, 2025 · 22:31
This episode features Aymeric Roucher of Hugging Face discussing smol agents, a lightweight agent framework, and argues that code-based agents outperform JSON-based agents. Roucher explains that agents are defined by LLM control over execution flow, and smol agents simplifies this with a core file under 1000 lines. He describes the origin from transformers.agents and the security-focused custom Python interpreter. The library achieved third place on the GAIA benchmark, using o1 and Sonnet models, and Roucher projects 90% accuracy by 2026 based on a sigmoid trend line. Hugging Face is launching an agent course and plans to build GUI agents for computer use, while also fine-tuning R1 for agentic tasks.
