Defining the Agent's Environment › Glossary

Environment: The space where an agent operates, including all the information it can perceive and all the actions it can take. For a digital assistant, this includes data sources, APIs, tools, and communication channels.

Perception: How an agent receives information from its environment. This might be reading user input, querying a database, or receiving sensor data.

Action: Something an agent does that affects its environment. This could be sending a message, calling an API, moving a robot's motors, or updating a database.

Environment Boundaries: The limits on what an agent can access and what actions it can take. These boundaries are crucial for safety, privacy, and reliability.

Action Space: The set of all possible actions an agent can take in its environment. A chatbot's action space might include "send message" and "escalate to human," while a robot's might include "move forward" and "rotate."

Tool: A capability the agent can use to interact with its environment, such as a function to query a database, call an API, or perform a calculation.