Agent Planning

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.

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.

Agent Autonomy Level

The degree of independence an AI agent has in making and executing decisions without human approval.

The ability of an AI agent to evaluate its own outputs and reasoning, identifying errors and improving responses.

Safety constraints and boundaries that limit agent behaviour to prevent harmful, unintended, or out-of-scope actions.

The complete set of possible actions available to an AI agent in a given environment, defining the boundaries of what the agent can do to accomplish its objectives.

A system design where human oversight and approval are required at critical decision points in automated processes.

A business process that is partially or fully executed by autonomous AI agents rather than human workers.

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

A large collection of AI agents operating collaboratively using emergent behaviour patterns to solve complex tasks.

An advanced retrieval-augmented generation pattern where an agent dynamically decides what information to retrieve, from which sources, and how to refine queries iteratively.