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How to Build Agents That Write Their Own Tools

AWS Developers — Aug 25, 2026 — talk

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Demonstrates how to build AWS Strands agents that dynamically create, validate, and load new tools at runtime when encountering tasks outside their original toolset. The tutorial shows a complete implementation of meta tooling where an agent writes a text_similarity tool (using Jaccard and cosine similarity), validates its syntax, loads it into the live registry, and uses it to compute real scores—all within a single conversation. Ideal for developers building autonomous AI agents who want to overcome static tool limitations.