“Ultimately, we opted to build the agent loop, tools, and the system for gathering context ourselves, and we connect directly to model providers instead of relying on a broad agent framework. That's because a framework we initially explored lagged behind the provider APIs we wanted to use and included more structure than Reclaim needed.”
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Dropbox, “Evolving our calendar assistant Reclaim to be AI-native without starting over”, Dropbox.Tech, 2026-09-29, at Building the agent platform. https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/evolving-calendar-assistant-reclaim-to-be-ai-native Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/dropbox-build-agent-loop-tools-context-ourselves-framework-lagged-2026