AI Agents · Course resources
Meeting vocabulary companion
Use twelve AI-agent terms in practical workplace sentences, with the titles of the earlier explanations.
Choose a sentence that fits the discussion. Adapt the example to your work, keeping the meaning. These sentences use concepts already explained in Sections 1–3.
| Term | A sentence you can use | Where to revisit the explanation |
|---|---|---|
| AI agent | What goal can this AI agent complete, and which steps can it choose? | How Would You Explain an AI Agent? (Goals, Tools and Choices) (Section 1) |
| agentic | The work is agentic: it chose another search because the first page did not answer the question. | Is ChatGPT an AI Agent? (Section 3) |
| agent-washing | That may be agent-washing: the advertisement promises customer support, but the demonstration only shows a draft reply. | Can You Tell AI Agent Hype From Useful Work? (Agent-Washing) (Section 1) |
| model | Let’s try another model with the same files and request. | Why Can AI Explain a Job Without Doing It? (Models and Actions) (Section 2) |
| tools | Which tool actually creates the appointment? | How Does an AI Agent Take Action? (Tools and Connectors) (Section 2) |
| connector | Does the calendar connector let us create events? | How Does an AI Agent Take Action? (Tools and Connectors) (Section 2) |
| API | Can our order system accept a cancellation request through its API? | What Is an API? (How Software Requests Information and Actions) (Section 2) |
| context window | The context display shows that we are getting close to the context window limit. Let’s keep the important instructions in a file. | What Does an AI Agent Remember? (Context Window and Memory) (Section 2) |
| tokens | The token count includes pieces of the text supplied to the model and the text it generates. | What Does an AI Agent Remember? (Context Window and Memory) (Section 2) |
| trigger | What is the trigger: our request, a scheduled time or an incoming message? | What Starts an AI Agent? (Manual, Scheduled and Event Triggers) (Section 3) |
| workflow | Does this workflow follow prepared steps, or can the model choose what to do next? | Is ChatGPT an AI Agent? (Section 3) |
| LLM | The LLM writes the reply, but we still need to check the price against its source. | What Is an LLM in an AI Agent? (Section 2) |