IBM Research has published a Hugging Face guide to building agentic applications with CUGA, a lightweight harness accompanied by two dozen working examples. The focus is on showing developers complete patterns rather than only describing agent architectures.
That matters because many agent demos hide the unglamorous parts: control flow, tool interfaces, state handling, and failure cases. A reusable harness can make those choices easier to inspect and adapt.
For teams experimenting with agents, example-heavy tooling can shorten the path from a prototype prompt chain to an application with clearer structure.