An AI system that works toward a goal by taking actions with tools (such as searching, running code or editing files) and choosing each next step based on the results. Software built to work like an AI agent is called agentic.
See also
- Tool use
A model's ability to use outside tools (such as a search engine, a calculator, a database or running code) by writing a structured request that the surrounding software carries out and whose result the model reads.
- Agent harness
The software around a model that turns it into an agent: it runs the model step after step and hands it its tools and context.
- Multi-agent system
A system in which several AI agents act together, each with its own role, instructions or tools.
- Agent seat
A named role in the org with a written charter, a lane of files it may write, and a line it cannot cross without a human.
Cite this term.
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Orbyt Labs, AI agent (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/ai-agent
Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset
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