Agent Bricks

In the Ultra Transcenders books

DBX-GENAI

Each book explains Agent Bricks in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Databricks

  Analytics platform built on Apache Spark where data is processed in notebooks; Unity Catalog is the governance model it recommends.

• Azure CLI

  Command-line tool for managing Azure that runs on any platform; examples include az login, az storage queue and az policy state trigger-scan.

• Document Intelligence add-on capabilities

  Extra Document Intelligence options switched on with the features query parameter: barcodes, formulas, keyValuePairs, languages, ocrHighResolution, queryFields and styleFont.

• Genie

  Genie Agents (once called Genie spaces) let Azure Databricks users ask about curated data in everyday language; Genie writes a read-only SQL query behind the scenes and shows what it finds, with charts.

Related terms

• Agent Bricks Classification

  An Agent Bricks feature, built on ai_classify, for assigning documents to categories you set in advance. The name refers to this product, not to classification as a broad machine learning idea.

• agent.toml

  The project file where an Agent Bricks agent lists the managed resources it relies on, for example tools, memory, sessions and tracing. Running agentbricks deploy uses this file to set those resources up and give the agent access.

• Document Parsing

  An Agent Bricks feature, available through the UI, SQL and REST, that pulls structured content and layout out of document files. It is built on ai_parse_document, and its UI puts the results next to the original file.

• Information Extraction (Agent Bricks)

  Define a schema and this Agent Bricks UI, built on ai_extract, draws matching fields out of unstructured documents and evaluates each one. Validation happens in the UI and scaling through the function; the previous version is now legacy.

• Knowledge Assistant

  A chatbot builder from Agent Bricks, now legacy, that answers questions from documents and gives citations. Genie Agents (low-code) and the Agent Bricks CLI (code) are the routes for anything new.

• Supervisor Agent

  Now legacy, this Agent Bricks offering coordinates agents and tools from different domains, and every end user must be able to reach each subagent personally. Genie Agents replace it for new builds, with the Agent Bricks CLI as the code route.