Building Agentic Systems in Go with Ollama

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I worked through Joel Boursiquot’s GopherCon 2026 workshop, Agentic Systems the Hard Way. Zero third-party dependencies. The framing that stuck: Go is the control plane; the LLM is the decision engine. Here’s the core of it.

What an agent actually is

Model + tools + loop. The model never executes anything — it emits a wish (“call search_docs with these args”), your Go code validates and runs it, feeds the result back, and repeats until the model answers without asking for tools. Deterministic Go around a nondeterministic model. That’s the whole trick.

Agents on Moises Vega

Building Agentic Systems in Go with Ollama

What an agent actually is