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What is an AI agent?
An AI agent is software that uses a language model to work towards a goal in several steps. It decides what to do next, uses tools such as search, a database or an API, checks the result and continues. A chatbot answers a message; an agent carries out a task.
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All questions →MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard, introduced by Anthropic in 2024, for connecting AI assistants to other software. A system such as an ERP exposes its data and actions through an MCP server, and any assistant that supports MCP can then use them within the permissions it is given.
Read more →Yes. MCP connects an AI assistant to systems and data. A2A (Agent2Agent), an open protocol started by Google, lets an agent in one system pass work to an agent in another. "Skills" are packaged instructions that teach an assistant how to carry out a particular procedure.
Read more →RAG stands for retrieval-augmented generation. Before the model answers, the system looks up relevant passages in your own documents or database and gives them to the model along with the question. The answer is then based on that material instead of only on what the model learned in training.
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