What is an agent?

An agent is a model that has been given tools, instructions and a job, so it can act rather than only answer.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 12, 20261 min read
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The difference from a chat window is that an agent can read a file, run a command, look something up, and use what came back to decide the next step.

It is the model plus everything around it.