Definition
An AI system able to chain several actions autonomously to accomplish a goal: search, analyze, write, use tools.
Unlike a chatbot that answers a question, an AI agent breaks a goal down into steps and executes them: querying a document base, cross-checking sources, preparing a deliverable, triggering an action in a third-party tool. It loops until it reaches the requested result.
In a company the challenge is not technical prowess but control: which actions can the agent perform on its own, and which require human validation? Good practice is to let the agent act autonomously on reversible, internal actions (search, drafts) and to require a human in the loop for any outgoing or irreversible action.
All AI models, deployed on your infrastructure, with your documents connected.