from custom integrations to a universal standard for tool access The post MCP Explained: How Modern AI Agents Connect to the Real World appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Maria Mouschoutzi
The article "Where the Agent Development Lifecycle Fits" discusses how to coordinate the development of agent capabilities with the applications they power. It highlights the importance of aligning agent creation processes with the needs of the end‑use cases they support. The piece appears on Towards Data Science and focuses on integrating agent development into broader application workflows.
By Andrew Hinton
Building manager–specialist workflows with the OpenAI Agents SDK The post Using Agents as Tools appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Shuai Guo
arXiv:2505. 21550v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Collaborative agentic AI is projected to transform entire industries by enabling AI-powered agents to autonomously perceive, plan, and act within digital environments.
By Rishi Sharma, Martijn de Vos, Pradyumna Chari, Ramesh Raskar, Anne-Marie Kermarrec
A practical walkthrough using text-to-SQL as the example The post Why I Stopped Using One Agent and Built a Multi-Agent Pipeline Instead appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Priyansh Bhardwaj
Using Gemma 4, Ollama, OpenAI Agents SDK, and Tavily MCP to build a lightweight research agent The post From Local LLM to Tool-Using Agent appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Shuai Guo