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# The Agent Development SDK

Building custom, complex agents.

The Agent Development SDK is your toolkit for unlocking the full customizability of Uptiq's intelligence core.

Designed for architects and advanced developers, this SDK provides the necessary interfaces, libraries, and methods to define complex agent behaviors, integrate custom reasoning engines, and fine-tune resource consumption and error handling.

Use the SDK to move beyond prompt-driven creation, allowing you to build specialized agents that adhere to unique enterprise architecture and performance demands.

### Which SDK is this?

Four different things in Qore are called an SDK. They are not variants of each other.

| SDK                                      | What it is for                                                                      | Runs in          |
| ---------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
| **Widgets SDK** (`@uptiqai/widgets-sdk`) | Dropping a prebuilt chat interface into your web app                                | Browser          |
| **Headless Agent JS SDK**                | Building your own chat UI against an agent, with sockets and events handled for you | Browser          |
| **Agent Development SDK**                | Defining agent behaviour in code rather than in the builder                         | Your own service |
| **Skill Development SDK**                | Wrapping your own business logic as a skill any agent can use                       | Your own service |

The first two are about *talking to* an agent that already exists. The last two are about *building* what the agent is and what it can do. If you want to call an agent from your backend and you are not extending the platform, you want neither.

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