University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

An agent is a system that pursues a goal by choosing its own actions in a loop, rather than executing a fixed script written by a developer. The defining property is autonomy over control flow: the model decides what happens next, and the surrounding program supplies the means to act and the results of acting.

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Which property most clearly distinguishes an agent from a conventional workflow that chains several model calls?

Give one concrete situation in which building an agent would be the wrong choice, and say what you would build instead.

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