Agent Memory and Context

Know the Vocabulary

This lesson uses the terms below many times. Read them once now, and come back here when a later section needs one.

• Agent: A system in which a model chooses some of its next steps while it runs, inside limits that the application enforces.
• The loop: The agent's working cycle. The model picks a step, the runtime runs the tool, the result comes back, and the model picks again.
• Runtime: The ordinary code around the model. It runs the loop, executes the tools, and decides what the model sees on each step.