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.
grounding — Tying a model's answers to checkable sources — retrieved documents, live data, tool results — instead of letting it answer from memory alone.
Why it matters
A concrete answer to 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 → identity and web access: run as the user to avoid permission and licensing drift, propagate a trace header for attribution, and deny native search so all web access goes through an in-network index.
videoAgents' next frontier: agent-to-agent and network effects — Jean-Denis Greze, Town
videoEveryone Gets A Software Company — Benjamin Guo, Zo Computer
videoFrom coding to Knowledge work agents — Karan Vaidya, Composio
videoAgent Spending Without Controls — Rodrigo Coelho & Pranav Maheshwari, Edge & Node
