smolagents

Name: smolagents
Rating: 5 (14200 reviews)
Author: Hugging Face

OfficialLightweight

Hugging Face's minimal agent library focused on code-first agent design. Agents write and execute Python code to accomplish tasks rather than using JSON tool calls.

by Hugging Face14.2k starsApache-2.0Updated Apr 2026

Installation

Install

pip install smolagents

Language support

Python

Supported LLMs

Any model on Hugging Face HubOpenAIAnthropic

Features (8)

code_agents

tool_calling_agents

multi_agent

tool_use

managed_agents

hub_tools

gradio_ui

vision

Source

View on GitHub

Details

Author: Hugging Face
Category: Lightweight
Languages: 1
Features: 8
Stars: 14.2k
License: Apache-2.0
Status: Official

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