# Question Answering

Now let’s write our first recipe that calls a (human or language model) agent: We’ll simply ask them to answer a question.

In [step 1](https://primer.ought.org/chapters/question-answering/q-and-a-without-context), we’ll answer a question without any context.

In [step 2](https://primer.ought.org/chapters/question-answering/q-and-a-about-short-texts), we’ll provide a short passage as background.