Interesting! First time im seeing this course, thanks for the link. From a high level it’s definitely in the same code first agents family then. After reading about smolagents for a bit i think the main things Codecall adds are TypeScript + generated SDKs, progressive tool discovery (readFile + executeCode instead of exposing every tool directly), and the single script sandboxed execution first flow w/ learned constraints, rather than the more of the "multi‑step ReAct loop" that smolagents prioritizes (like in the link below), which is a bit more like traditional tool calling w/ code ->
https://huggingface.co/blog/smolagents