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Agents & Agentic AI

• Agent handoff
• Agent loop
• Agent state
• Agentic AI
• Agentic workflow
• AI agent
• Approval gate
• Autonomous agent
• Executor
• Function calling
• Guardrail
• Human-in-the-loopHITL
• Human-on-the-loopHOTL
• Long-term memory
• Memory
• Multi-agent system
• Orchestrator
• Planner
• Short-term memory
• Subagent
• Task queue
• Tool calling
• Tool use
• Workflow
• Working memory