Demystifying the "ReAct" pattern, Tools, and LangGraph logic.
A standard LLM (like ChatGPT) is just a text prediction engine. It lives in a "glass box." It can't browse the web, run code, or save files on its own. It can only hallucinate answers based on training data.
The Shift: When we turn it into an Agent, we aren't changing the brain. We are giving it Tools (functions) and a loop to decide when to use them.
Tools are just Python functions. But how does the LLM know how to use them? It reads the Docstring (the text inside the quotes).
Try clicking the green text below to change the docstring and see how the Agent reacts.
This is the "Heart" of the agent (managed by LangGraph). It's a loop called ReAct: Reason, then Act.
Note the arrow going from Tool back to LLM. The Agent sees the tool's output and decides what to do next. It loops until the task is done.
Let's put it all together. This is a simulation of the "DataGen" agent from the video.
It has two tools: generate_data and save_file.