AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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An AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → pattern worth stealing: separate crawling from planning so the crawler cannot skip facts the current plan does not need, pass provenance-linked typed documents between stages, and stop on a closure certificate instead of a reward threshold.
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