Agent

An Agent is an autonomous software component that perceives its environment through sensors, uses a decision process to select actions, and executes those actions via actuators. It maintains internal state, goals, and knowledge, enabling planning, reasoning, and learning to improve performance over time. Agents can collaborate, negotiate, and adapt to changing conditions, often using rules, models, or learning-based methods to map perceptions to effective actions. In typical architectures, perception, deliberation, and action loops run continuously, with interfaces for data exchange, monitoring, and integration with larger systems.