Agent
Category: Agents“AY-jent”
An AI worker that has a specific job to do.
Lesson #1: AI Foundations & the Agent Era →An employee with one responsibility.
A spam filter is an agent: its only job is sorting junk email.
A permit agent only works on permits.
A bookkeeping agent that only categorizes expenses.
"Agent" is the building block word — almost every new AI product is built from agents.
An agent is an AI worker with one job.
Pick one task you do every week. Write one sentence describing an AI agent whose only job is that task.
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Many AI agents working together while sharing information.
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Handing a specific piece of work to the agent — or to another agent — best suited to finish it.
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Passing a job — with its notes and context — from one agent to another, or to a person, without losing the thread.
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A fixed set of steps an AI follows in order, every time — unlike an agent that decides its own path.
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