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, and the agents are available by subscription.
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.
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.