What Does This Mean?
AI systems designed to autonomously plan, execute, and adapt across multi-step tasks — using tools, making decisions, and correcting course — rather than just responding to a single prompt.
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"I gave the agent the ticket number and walked away. It read the codebase, wrote the fix, and opened the PR by itself."
LORE & ORIGIN
The term moved from academic AI-research vocabulary into mainstream tech and business usage through 2024-2025 as products like autonomous coding assistants and task-executing AI browsers demonstrated the difference between a chatbot that answers and an agent that acts.
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