>Anthropic's definition: Some customers define agents as fully autonomous systems that operate independently over extended periods, using various tools to accom

>Anthropic's definition: Some customers define agents as fully autonomous systems that operate independently over extended periods, using various tools to accomplish complex tasks. But that's not their definition, and they explicitly describe that definition as an 'autonomous system'. Their definition comes in the next paragraph: "At Anthropic, we categorize all these variations as agentic systems, but draw an important architectural distinction between workflows and agents: * Workflows are systems where LLMs and tools are orchestrated through predefined code paths. Agents, on the other hand, are systems where LLMs dynamically direct their own processes and tool usage, maintaining control over how they accomplish tasks. * Agents, on the other hand, are systems where LLMs dynamically direct their own processes and tool usage, maintaining control over how they accomplish tasks."