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What is an AI agent?
Glossary · AI agent and machine identity security
Short answer
An AI agent is software that decides on steps and takes actions with the access it is given, instead of only answering questions.
Why it matters
An agent acts as an identity. What it can do depends on the credentials, roles and tools it holds, not on what its instructions say.
What it looks like
An assistant that reads tickets, searches documents and opens pull requests, each with a different credential.
In nerl0
nerl0 maps every AI agent and what each can reach. The Agent in the workspace answers questions about that map. See Agent.