Building Your First AI Agent: A Step-by-Step Guide
Prerequisites Before we start building our AI agent, make sure you have: Python 3.8 or higher installed Basic understanding of Python programming An OpenAI API key (for the language model) Familiarity with command line interface Setting Up the Environment First, let’s create a new project and install the required dependencies: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 mkdir my-first-ai-agent cd my-first-ai-agent # Create a virtual environment python -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate # Install required packages pip install openai python-dotenv requests beautifulsoup4 Create a .env file to store your API key securely: ...