AI agent
Software that reads, decides and acts across systems to complete a defined task, and asks a person when uncertain.
Audit trail
A complete, tamper-evident record of what an agent received, decided and did.
Autonomy level
The degree to which an agent may act without human approval.
Evaluation
Testing an agent on real historical cases before and after each change.
Guardrail
A rule limiting what an agent may do, enforced outside the AI model.
Hallucination
An AI output not supported by the source information. Mitigated by citations and checks.
Human in the loop
A design in which a person reviews or approves agent work at defined points.
Integration
A secure connection allowing an agent to read from or write to a system.
Orchestration
Coordinating several specialist agents within one process.
RPA
Robotic process automation: bots that follow fixed, screen-level rules.