AI Agents

An AI agent is a program that is given a goal rather than a command. It decides the steps itself, calls whatever tools it has been granted, and keeps going until it has an answer or runs out of room to try. That autonomy is the whole difference from a chatbot, and it is also the thing to check hardest: how much can it do without asking you, and what happens when it is wrong. Read the permissions before the feature list. The listings below range from research assistants that only read, to agents that write files and send email on your behalf.