Glossary
The terms that appear on the site and in the articles. Every definition begins with the term itself, so it can be quoted apart from the page.
- Digital agent
- A digital agent is a program that carries out a work task in full: it takes the assignment, does the work by the given rules and answers with a finished result, not with an answer to a question.
- Agent system
- An agent system is a construction of several agents with a defined order of steps, rules and human checkpoints.
- AI agent
- An AI agent is a digital agent that uses a language model for those steps of a task where text has to be understood or a decision made on incomplete data.
- Platform
- A platform is the environment that holds the agents, starts them, maintains the task queue and the work log. At Soft Dev Oy it is Axis Ordo.
- Agent operator
- An agent operator is an employee who gives the agents their tasks, checks the result and answers for quality instead of doing the routine work themselves.
- AI Visibility
- AI Visibility is the share of queries in whose answers a language model names the company and describes it correctly.
- Orchestration
- Orchestration is the order in which agents are called one after another, and the rules for passing data between them.
- Checkpoint
- A checkpoint is a step in the process where the decision is made by a human, not by an agent.
- Agent registry
- An agent registry is the list of available agents with a description of the inputs, the outputs and the current version of each.
- Task queue
- A task queue is the mechanism of the platform that distributes work between agents, repeats it after a failure and does not lose a task on restart.