Agentic AI
13 concepts
Always-On Agents
AI systems that run autonomously in the cloud on schedules, API triggers, or webhooks — executing complex workflows without requiring a user's local machine.
Managed Agents
Cloud-hosted AI agent platforms that handle infrastructure, credential management, and sandboxing so developers only define tasks and guardrails—dramatically accelerating agent deployment.
Agent Evaluation
The practice of measuring AI agent performance using deterministic, execution-based testing environments that verify complete tool-call trajectories rather than relying on subjective LLM-as-a-judge grading.
Agentic Engineering
The discipline of building autonomous AI agent systems — covering architecture, orchestration, tool integration, safety, and operations.
Agentic RAG
RAG where an autonomous agent controls the retrieval process — iteratively searching, refining queries, and cross-referencing sources.
Context Compression for AI Agents
Techniques to reduce token counts while preserving meaning — critical for agentic workflows that exhaust even million-token context windows.
Kairos
An always-on background daemon inside Claude Code that autonomously prunes, merges, and resolves contradictions in the AI agent's working memory.
Prompt Chaining
Breaking complex tasks into a sequence of simpler LLM calls where each output feeds the next input — improving quality 20-40% over single-pass processing
AI Agent
An AI system that autonomously plans, reasons, and takes actions to accomplish goals using tools
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)
Architectures where multiple specialized AI agents collaborate, divide tasks, and verify each other's work — with routing strategies like the Advisor pattern enabling cost-efficient orchestration.
Agentic AI
AI systems that combine language models with reasoning and tool-use to autonomously execute complex, multi-step tasks — now supported by dedicated infrastructure for production deployment.
Binex
A local testing framework that orchestrates AI agents using YAML DAGs, providing deep visibility and CLI debugging for multi-agent workflows.
Galactic
An open-source orchestration tool that isolates parallel AI coding agents into separate Git worktrees to prevent file and port conflicts.