Delegate a job to a specialist agent You expose a child agent as a typed specialist with its own tools, runtime, and context. Use one when the delegated job needs an independent agent loop. cpp academy academy/topics/child-agents website/content-src/academy/course.mjs academy Delegate a job to a specialist agent
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Delegate a job to a specialist agent

You expose a child agent as a typed specialist with its own tools, runtime, and context. Use one when the delegated job needs an independent agent loop.

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auto assistant = axllm::agent("message:string -> reply:string", axllm::object({
  {"functions", axllm::array({search})},
  {"contextFields", axllm::array({})}
}));
Run itIn your own project
include(FetchContent)
FetchContent_Declare(axllm GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/ax-llm/ax GIT_TAG main SOURCE_SUBDIR packages/cpp)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(axllm)
target_link_libraries(your_app PRIVATE axllm::axllm)

#include <axllm/axllm.hpp>

auto llm = axllm::ai("openai", axllm::object({{"apiKey", std::getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")}}));
auto classify = axllm::ax("review:string -> sentiment:class \"positive, negative, neutral\"");

Set OPENAI_APIKEY in your environment before running provider-backed code.

In the ax repo

From a clone of the ax repo:

npm run example -- cpp src/examples/cpp/short-agents/tools_agent.cpp
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