Building an AI Agent for Google Calendar — Part 1/2
Have you ever wished for a personal assistant who could effortlessly manage your day-to-day tasks while helping you find relevant information online? Enter AI agents — intelligent software programs that use generative AI models to interact with users and autonomously perform tasks.
With Friendli Serverless Endpoints and Friendli Tools, you can build AI agents that integrate seamlessly with Google Calendar to optimize your productivity.
In this article, we’ll explore a real-world application of AI agents by learning how to code an AI agent that utilizes tools to connect with Google Calendar and conduct web searches. Stay tuned for part 2 of this blog, where we will build on this code to enhance the AI agent’s UI/UX for a visual, interactive user experience on the web.
Highlights of this blog include…
- Complete Source Code: Includes full AI agent JavaScript code using Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B Instruct model on Friendli Serverless Endpoints and Vercel AI SDK.
- Beginner-Friendly Tutorial: Perfect for beginners, this guide provides all the code and instructions to help you run your first Node.js project, even if you’re new to JavaScript.
- FriendliAI Examples GitHub Repository: Visit https://github.com/friendliai/examples/tree/main/tutorials/calendar-cli to check out the complete project on GitHub.
Understanding AI Agents Through the ‘Calendar AI Agent’
What is an AI agent in real-life examples?
AI agents are intelligent software programs that autonomously perform tasks using large language models (LLMs). These agents can manage activities like adding calendar events or conducting web searches, similar to virtual assistants like Siri. To demonstrate how these agents work in real life, we’ll walk you through a demo of a user-agent conversation, where the calendar AI agent is asked the following questions:
- Can you tell me my schedule for this week?
- Can you schedule a dinner date event for this Saturday at 6 pm?
- Can you search for the best seafood restaurants near the Hudson River that I can visit for my dinner date?
In Figure 2, the AI agent demonstrates its ability to handle a user query like, “Can you tell me my schedule for this week?” by utilizing tool calls to access the user’s upcoming events. For example, the agent responds, “It looks like you have a lunch date scheduled for Thursday, August 29, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM.” This response is accurate, as confirmed by the user’s Google Calendar shown in Figure 1, which indeed lists this event in the last week of August.
