Glossary
Terms that actually
come up in projects.
Every entry answers what the term means first, then the more useful question: when it matters for you. Where a term is oversold, that is stated too.
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- Agentic Browsing Agentic browsing refers to software that operates a browser on its own: opening pages, entering data, clicking buttons, comparing results. A person sets the goal, and the program finds its own way there. The difference from a crawler is that a crawler only reads, while an agent acts.
- AI Agent An AI agent is a program that takes on a goal, works out the necessary intermediate steps on its own, and calls on tools such as search, databases, or other programs along the way. The difference from a chatbot isn't language ability: it's that an agent acts instead of just answering.