jargon

Applied AI·Agents

you stop scripting the steps and let the model choose which tool to call next, in a loop, until it decides it is finished.

Agent

Draft summary, pending review

A system where a model decides its own next steps in a loop, calling tools, reading results and continuing until it judges the goal met. The defining property is that the control flow is chosen by the model at runtime, not fixed in code.

Commonly confused with