Definition

What is an AI Agent?

An autonomous software program that uses a large language model to plan and execute multi-step tasks.

Unlike a simple chatbot that responds to single prompts, an AI agent can take actions like browsing the web, writing files, and calling APIs to complete a goal. Agents need access to relevant context to do their work effectively, which is why context management systems like Wire exist.

Further reading

Five Ways to Give AI Access to Your Data

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AI Agent Context as a Service Context Container Structured Context Context Engineering Context Portability Context Rot Context Window MCP (Model Context Protocol) MCP Server RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Semantic Search Wire

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