Pydantic AI 2.0: The New Best Way to Build AI Agents is Composing Capabilities

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The new best way to build AI agents is to compose capabilities, instead of every agent being a unorganized pile of tools, instructions, and guardrails. That is the shift in Pydantic AI 2.0, and it changes how you build every agent. A capability is a self-contained brick that bundles its own instructions, tools, model settings, and hooks. You compose an agent by snapping bricks together, and the same brick drops into any other agent unchanged. In this video I showcase a real support agent built entirely out of capabilities, then reuse one of them in a completely different agent without changing a line. Building production ready AI agents has never been easier! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Check out Nimbalyst, the open source visual workspace for coding agents: https://nimbalyst.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_campaign=cole-medin-202607 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Join my free live workshop on July 29th, where I show you how to become an AI native engineering organization - building a reliable standard for how teams use AI coding agents: https://dynamous.ai/ai-native-engineering-org - My demo agent from this video: https://github.com/coleam00/orbit-support-agent - Pydantic AI 2.0 announcement: https://pydantic.dev/articles/pydantic-ai-v2 - Pydantic AI on GitHub: https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 0:00 Pydantic AI 2.0: They Did It Again 1:24 What a Capability Is 3:23 Frameworks vs Coding Agent SDKs 4:45 Sponsor: Nimbalyst 6:24 The Demo Agent Repo 7:55 Walkthrough: 1.0 vs 2.0 10:19 Progressive Disclosure 11:03 Live Agent Demo 12:36 The Harness & Lean Core 14:17 Outro ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join me as I push the limits of what is possible with AI. I'll be uploading videos weekly - at least every Wednesday at 7:00 PM CDT!

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