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# 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](/chapters/question-answering/q-and-a-without-context.md), we’ll answer a question without any context.

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