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Albert Villanova del Moral
@albertvillanova.bsky.social
Machine Learning Engineer @ Hugging Face
Latest smolagents release supports GPT-5: build agents that think, plan, and act.
⚡ Upgrade now and put GPT-5 to work!
August 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🚀 smolagents v1.21.0 is here!
Now with improved safety in the local Python executor: dunder calls are blocked!
⚠️ Still, not fully isolated: for untrusted code, use a remote executor instead: Docker, E2B, Wasm.
✨ Many bug fixes: more reliable code.
👉 github.com/huggingface/...
Release v1.21.0 · huggingface/smolagents
Enhancements ✨ Tool & Model Improvements Add Tool to_code_prompt and to_tool_calling_prompt by @albertvillanova in #1599 Improve function body extraction in tools by @HairlessVillager in #1627 S...
github.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
💥 Big milestone just dropped in smolagents:

The CodeAgent can now execute Python code remotely in WebAssembly, powered by Pyodide + Deno!

Your agent-generated Python runs in a secure, sandboxed Wasm runtime: no local execution required.

Here's why this changes the game 🧵👇
July 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🚀New Release: smolagents v1.19.0 is out!

This one's packed with agent upgrades, smoother streaming, better docs, and bug squashing galore. 🧵👇
June 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New in smolagents v1.17.0:
- Structured generation in CodeAgent 🧱
- Streamable HTTP MCP support 🌐
- Agent.run() returns rich RunResult 📦

Smarter agents, smoother workflows.
Try it now: github.com/huggingface/...
Release v1.17.0 · huggingface/smolagents
New Features ✨ Structured Generation in CodeAgent: Add optional support for structured outputs in CodeAgent, enabling more reliable and consistent generation patterns Adding optional structured g...
github.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🚀 Experiment with Tiny Agents: minimalist LLM agents powered by async MCP tools, inspired by @julien_c

🔍 A side-by-side comparison of tool-calling vs. code agent

💡 See how code agents handle complex workflows in one step, reducing model calls and boosting efficiency!
TinyAgents: A Minimal Experiment with Code Agents and MCP Tools
A Blog post by Albert Villanova del Moral on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
May 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
New in smolagents v1.16.0:
🔍 Bing support in WebSearchTool
🐍 Custom functions & executor_kwargs in LocalPythonExecutor
🔧 Streaming GradioUI fixes
🌐 Local web agents via api_base & api_key
📚 Better docs

👉 github.com/huggingface/smolagents
GitHub - huggingface/smolagents: 🤗 smolagents: a barebones library for agents that think in python code.
🤗 smolagents: a barebones library for agents that think in python code. - huggingface/smolagents
github.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Code Agents generate full code blocks and execute them in one go, instead of calling tools one-by-one. Learn how to build smarter, faster agents in a new @deeplearningai.bsky.social course by @hf.co.

Build with smolagents → sandboxed, reliable, powerful.

🔗 www.deeplearning.ai/short-course...
Building Code Agents with Hugging Face smolagents
Build agents that write and execute code to perform complex tasks, using Hugging Face’s smolagents.
www.deeplearning.ai
April 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
smolagents v1.14.0 is out! 🚀
🔌 MCPClient: A sleek new client for connecting to remote MCP servers, making integrations more flexible and scalable.
🪨 Amazon Bedrock: Native support for Bedrock-hosted models.
SmolAgents is now more powerful, flexible, and enterprise-ready. 💼
Release v1.14.0 · huggingface/smolagents
New features 🚀 SmolAgents MCP Client by @grll in #1200 Introduce a new MCPClient class that allows users to manage connections to one or more MCP servers, making integration with SmolAgents more ...
github.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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March 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🚀 New smolagents update: Safer Local Python Execution! 🦾🐍

With the latest release, we've added security checks to the local Python interpreter: every evaluation is now analyzed for dangerous builtins, modules, and functions. 🔒

Here's why this matters & what you need to know! 🧵👇
March 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🚀 Big news for AI agents! With the latest release of smolagents, you can now securely execute Python code in sandboxed Docker or E2B environments. 🦾🔒

Here's why this is a game-changer for agent-based systems: 🧵👇
March 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🚀 Introducing @hf.co 🤗 Open Deep-Research💥

In just 24 hours, we built an open-source agent that:
✅ Autonomously browse the web
✅ Search, scroll & extract info
✅ Download & manipulate files
✅ Run calculations on data

55% on GAIA validation set! Help us improve it!💡
huggingface.co/blog/open-de...
Open-source DeepResearch – Freeing our search agents
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
February 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Discover all the improvements in the new version of Lighteval: huggingface.co/docs/lightev...
Lighteval
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
January 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
🚀 The Open LLM Leaderboard just got a glow-up! 🌟
⚡ Faster, 🪶 lighter, 🧠 more intuitive: everything you need, now easier to explore.
Dive into the sleek new frontend: huggingface.co/spaces/open-...
December 12, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Reposted by Albert Villanova del Moral
Check out how easy it is to do LLM evals with LightEval!

* any dataset on the 🤗 Hub can become an eval task in a few lines of code: customize the prompt, metrics, parsing, few-shots, everything!
* model- and data-parallel inference
* auto batching with the new vLLM backend
November 25, 2024 at 5:24 PM
🚨 How green is your model? 🌱 Introducing a new feature in the Comparator tool: Environmental Impact for responsible #LLM research!
👉 huggingface.co/spaces/open-...
Now, you can not only compare models by performance, but also by their environmental footprint!
Open LLM Leaderboard Model Comparator - a Hugging Face Space by open-llm-leaderboard
Compare Open LLM Leaderboard results
huggingface.co
November 19, 2024 at 2:39 PM