Definitions of AI Agents and Agentic Systems

Definitions of AI Agents and Agentic Systems:

“AI Agents” are programs
where LLM outputs
control the workflow.
— Hugging Face

Two types of Agentic Systems (defined by Anthropic):

1. “Workflows” are systems
where LLMs and tools
are orchestrated
through predefined code paths

2. “Agents” are systems
where LLMs
dynamically direct their own processes and tool usage, maintaining control
over how they accomplish tasks

Source:

AI Engineer Agentic Track: The Complete Agent and MCP Course, Ed Donner