Registering your own PL/SQL functions as agent tools, and running pandas and numpy inside the database through OML4Py. Plus the authentication problem: a stored credential cannot be read back, but the OCI Vault can be — which removes the hardcoded password entirely.

Part 1 of a five-part series on building an AI financial analyst inside Oracle Autonomous Database. What Select AI Agent is, why an in-database agent beat the managed service for this use case, and how the four core objects — tool, task, agent, team — stack together.