pguso / ai-agents-from-scratch
Demystify AI agents by building them yourself. Local LLMs, no black boxes, real understanding of function calling, memory, and ReAct patterns.
Why this job: says: from scratch; topics: tutorial

What it does
Learn to build AI agents locally without frameworks. Understand what happens under the hood before using production frameworks.
Get started
npm installYou need: Node.js 18+; At least 8GB RAM (16GB recommended); Download models and place in ./models/ folder, details in DOWNLOAD.md
- Maintenance
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- Last commit 3 months ago
- Stars
- 4,907
- +16 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
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- Built with
- JavaScript
- 100% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 0
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 45% closed
- 12 still open
- Pull requests
- 0 merged
- 0 waiting
- Releases
- None
- Never published
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- JavaScript 100%
Topics
- ai-agents
- educational
- function-calling
- llm
- llm-agent
- node-llama-cpp
- react-agent
- tutorial
Project record
- JobLists and guides
- StatusListed
- Commits69
- Forks712
- Watching28
- Stars in 28 days+74
- CreatedOct 23, 2025
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 7, 2026
