Agent Fundamentals
The sense-decide-act loop that separates an agent from an ordinary script.
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What software agents are and how they work: autonomous programs that monitor, decide, and act for you, explained with real examples and honest limits.
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The sense-decide-act loop that separates an agent from an ordinary script.
Programs that watch prices, uptime, or inboxes and raise a hand when something changes.
Agents that complete multi-step jobs: booking, filing, summarizing, with checkpoints you set.
Where rule-based automation ends and language-model reasoning begins, and the tradeoffs of each.
Scoping what an agent may read, spend, and send, and why least privilege matters most here.
How to test an agent before giving it real work: sandboxes, dry runs, and audit logs.
How Software Agent Works
The agent reads its inputs: a mailbox, a price feed, a calendar, a set of files.
It weighs what it sees against its goal and rules, then picks the next action.
It executes the step, logs what it did, and either continues or asks a human before anything irreversible.
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A program that acts autonomously toward a goal: it perceives its environment (data, messages, prices), makes decisions, and takes actions without a human triggering each step.
A script follows a fixed sequence; an agent chooses its next step based on what it observes. The flexibility is the power and the risk.
Only within limits you set. Good practice is to scope permissions tightly, keep a human approval step on anything irreversible, and review the agent's logs regularly.
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