How to Build Production-Ready Agentic Systems with Z.AI GLM-5 Using Thinking Mode, Tool Calling, Streaming, and Multi-Turn Workflows

The tutorial shows how to set up the Z.AI SDK, capture an API key, and initialize ZaiClient to use GLM-5.

It demonstrates basic chat completions, streaming token outputs, and enabling thinking mode to stream internal reasoning.

It also covers building multi-turn conversations, function-like structured outputs, and tracking usage token counts for production workflows.