Hugging Face’s `smolagents` proves you can build an AI agent in 100 lines

There’s a quiet revolt in the agent framework space, and `smolagents` is at the center of it. The Hugging Face library ships under 1000 lines of Python, runs Python directly as the action space, and is shockingly easy to debug.

from smolagents import CodeAgent, OpenAIServerModel
agent = CodeAgent(tools=[], model=OpenAIServerModel("gpt-5"))
agent.run("How many R’s are in \"strawberry\"?")