Glossary

AI Agent

Also called: Artificial Intelligence Agent, Intelligent Agent

A software system that perceives its environment, reasons about goals, and autonomously performs actions using AI models, tools, memory, and workflows.

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Related terms

Autonomous Agent

An AI agent that independently perceives, reasons, plans, and executes actions to achieve goals with minimal or no human intervention.

Assistant Agent

An AI agent designed to assist users by understanding requests, providing information, and performing tasks through conversation, tools, and automation.

Orchestrator Agent

An AI agent designed to coordinate and manage other agents to achieve complex goals.

Tool Invocation

The act of executing an external tool or function call with specified parameters as directed by an AI agent.

Agent Workflow

A structured sequence of tasks, decisions, and tool interactions that an AI agent follows to achieve a specific goal or complete a process.

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