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AI Agent Frameworks: LangGraph, CrewAI, Swarm Comparison

  • Resource Compilation:* Ghadeer A. provides a curated list of resources for learning about AI agents, categorized by skill level (Beginner to Master), emphasizing practical application over theoretical knowledge. Maximilian Vogel's article (linked in reactions) contains the full list.
  • Practical Skill Emphasis:* The resources focus on building and deploying AI agents, with a strong recommendation for hands-on coding experience to solidify understanding, as highlighted by both Ghadeer A. and Maximilian Vogel.
  • Framework Comparison:* Several resources (Relari, Yi Zhang, Aparna Dhinakaran, MA Raza) compare agent frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, Hugging Face's `smolagents`, LlamaIndex Workflows, Microsoft's Autogen, Haystack's Agents, Pydantic agents and OpenAI Swarm, focusing on orchestration, state management, and tool integration.
  • LangGraph vs. CrewAI vs. OpenAI Swarm:* LangGraph offers graph-based orchestration with explicit state definition, CrewAI provides role-based collaboration with framework-managed state, and OpenAI Swarm uses routine-based prompting with a handoff mechanism, as detailed in additional source 1.
  • Multi-Agent RAG Implementation:* Gabriele Sgroi's resource details a multi-agentic RAG system using Hugging Face code agents and the Qwen2.5–7B-Instruct model, employing a hierarchical agent structure (Manager, Wikipedia Search, Page Search) for multi-hop question answering, but notes limitations in model power, computation time, and potential for hallucinations.
  • Security Considerations:* Jonathan Capriola highlights the critical but often overlooked aspect of security in AI agent development, advocating for A2SPA (AI Agent Security Protocol Architecture) for modular AI agents.
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