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In brief
An agent is a model in a loop with tools and a goal. The new risk is not a worse paragraph. It is an action taken with the wrong authority.
Original CloudExchangers explainer. It describes established public practice and labels the desk’s judgment as analysis. It is not a report of a newly announced event.
A chat reply is not an agent
A single completion returns text and stops. An agentic system wraps that completion in a loop. The model proposes a step, a program runs a tool, the tool’s result goes back into the context, and the model proposes the next step until a stop condition. The transformer architecture made the language piece workable. The loop is ordinary software: a state machine with a model in the middle.