Agent Primitives — Field Guide

One page: the three primitives (tool use, memory, planning); the anatomy of a tool call and what MCP standardizes; the four memory types (working / episodic / semantic / procedural) with where each lives; the three planning patterns (ReAct / plan-and-execute / reflection) with when to pick each; and the keep-it-simple checklist for matching each primitive to the task.

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AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Real-Time Pipelines and Agents to Serving, Cost, Compliance, and Verticals

This field guide lays out the three agent primitives, tool use, memory and planning, with what MCP standardizes and when to pick ReAct or plan-and-execute. Volume 7 covers the same primitives in depth for video products: agent loops, frameworks, memory and tools, plus serving infrastructure and per-stream cost. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.

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