What is an AI agent?
An AI agent is a system that perceives its context, decides the next step, uses tools and data, and executes actions to meet a goal with minimal human intervention.
It is the practical unit of agentic AI: instead of just answering, an agent reasons about the task, chooses which tool to invoke, looks up the information it needs and chains the steps together until it reaches a result. Against a conversational assistant, the difference is that it acts —see AI agent vs chatbot.
What it does and why it matters
A well-designed agent takes charge of a process end to end, not just a single answer. For complex tasks, several specialized agents combine through agent orchestration. That is what lets AI do real work inside an organization rather than stay a prototype.
How we approach it at Codara
We build AI agents connected to your operation and coordinate them inside Codara's agentic orchestration layer, with human control at the decision points, so your team can run them in production.
Preguntas frecuentes
What can an agent do that a chatbot cannot?
A chatbot converses and answers; an agent also decides the next step, uses tools and data, and runs multi-step actions to complete a task, not just to describe it.
What does it need to work in a company?
Access to the relevant tools and data, a connection to the systems already in use, and a design with human oversight and traceability so it can run reliably in production.