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Building AI Agents with Ease: Function Calling in VS Code AI Toolkit

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shreyanfern
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Aug 15, 2025

Function calling is the technical mechanism that allows an agent to take action. Think of the agent as the intelligent system or "brain" that reasons and plans, and the function calls as the agent's hands—the specific actions it can perform in the real world.

Function calling is a powerful technique that allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to go beyond their static training data and interact with real-world, dynamic information sources like databases and ...
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