AI agent

How it is used

Engineers build agents, give them tools, limit what they may do and log every action. Related phrases are agentic workflows, tool use and multi-agent systems. Because agents act on real systems, permissions and human approval steps are a big topic.

Example sentences

1. The AI agent reads the bug report, finds the right file and opens a draft fix for review.

2. We don't let the agent send emails unless a person approves them first.

Common collocations

• build an agent
• agentic workflow
• tool use
• multi-agent system

Related terms

• LLMShort for large language model: a very large neural network trained on huge amounts of text to predict the next token, which lets it answer questions, write, summarize and code.
• reinforcement learningA type of machine learning in which an agent learns by trial and error, taking actions in an environment and receiving rewards or penalties for the results.
• guardrailA rule or check placed around a model to stop harmful, off-topic or unsafe inputs and outputs, for example a filter that blocks personal data in answers.
• system promptInstructions given to a chat model before the conversation starts, which set its role, rules, tone and limits for all the messages that follow.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• AI agent · Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

More terms: Machine Learning and Data Processing

• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• model
• dataset
• training data
• label
• train
• supervised learning
• neural network
• deep learning
• loss function
• overfitting