Agent Context

Agentic AI

AI systems that can autonomously plan, reason, and take actions to achieve goals with minimal human intervention.

AI Agent

An autonomous software entity that perceives its environment, makes decisions, and takes actions to achieve specified objectives.

Autonomous Agent

An AI agent capable of operating independently, making decisions and taking actions without continuous human oversight.

Reactive Agent

An AI agent that responds to environmental stimuli with predefined actions without maintaining an internal model of the world.

Deliberative Agent

An AI agent that maintains an internal model of its world and reasons about actions before executing them.

BDI Architecture

Belief-Desire-Intention — an agent architecture where agents reason about beliefs, desires, and intentions to decide actions.

Agent Planning

The ability of an AI agent to formulate a sequence of actions to achieve a goal from its current state.

Tool Use

The capability of AI agents to interact with external tools, APIs, and services to extend their functionality.

Agent Hierarchy

An organisational structure where agents are arranged in levels, with higher-level agents delegating tasks to lower-level ones.

Supervisor Agent

An agent that oversees and coordinates the work of other agents, making high-level decisions and resolving conflicts.

Agent Sandbox

An isolated environment where AI agents can safely execute actions and experiment without affecting production systems.

Human-on-the-Loop

A system where humans monitor AI operations and can intervene when necessary, but don't approve every action.

The strategic process of redesigning business operations around autonomous AI agents to achieve hyperscale efficiency.

A catalogue of available tools and APIs that agents can discover and invoke, with descriptions, schemas, and authentication details enabling dynamic capability acquisition.

An AI agent that autonomously gathers, synthesises, and analyses information from multiple sources to produce comprehensive research reports on specified topics.

Reasoning and Acting — a framework where language model agents alternate between reasoning traces and action execution.

The ability to monitor, trace, and understand the internal states, decisions, and actions of AI agents in production.

An agent architecture that interleaves reasoning traces and action steps, enabling language models to plan dynamically and use external tools to solve multi-step problems.

An AI agent that formulates and pursues explicit goals, planning actions to achieve desired outcomes.

The defined role, personality, and behavioural characteristics assigned to an AI agent for consistent interaction.