AI Systems

An AI agent is a component within an agentic system that performs a specific function: retrieving information, generating output, validating a result, or invoking a tool. Agents are the working parts of a larger agentic architecture, not standalone systems.

Agentic AI refers to AI-enabled systems that can plan, sequence, and execute multi-step tasks autonomously — calling tools, making decisions, and interacting with their environment to achieve a goal. A system is "agentic" because it exercises a degree of autonomous judgment in how it reaches that goal, not just whether it executes a given instruction.