The Framework Landscape: Pick One (or None)

What an agent framework actually buys you, what it costs, an honest tour of the 2026 landscape grouped by shape, and when the right framework is a hundred lines of your own code.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

1. What a framework buys you — and what it costs
2. The landscape, grouped by shape
3. Building without a framework
4. Pick one: a decision, not a bake-off