Glossary term
Glossary term
Agentic Systems
An agent whose workflows are constrained by rigid rules. State machine agents generally make fewer mistakes than autonomous agents but lack the freedom to adapt to situations outside their constraints.
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A customer support team uses a state machine agent for clearly defined flows like refunds where the steps and transitions are known.
A devops team uses a state machine agent to walk through known incident-response playbooks with explicit states for triage, mitigation, and resolution.
A finance automation team uses a state machine agent for invoice processing because the steps are well defined and auditable.
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