# AI Agent

An AI system that pursues a goal by planning, using tools, and taking actions — searching, clicking, writing to databases, sending emails — with limited human intervention. A chatbot answers. An agent finishes the task.

Canonical: https://robauto.ai/learn/ai-agents/1

_AI Agents: Software That Does the Work — lesson 1 of 24 (DEFINITION)_

An AI system that pursues a goal by planning, using tools, and taking actions — searching, clicking, writing to databases, sending emails — with limited human intervention. A chatbot answers. An agent finishes the task.

Source: [Anthropic — Building effective agents](https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents?utm_source=robauto)

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