I think Anthropic does a good job of nailing it down to two definitions, one of which is very commonly referred to as agents but more appropriately called _work

I think Anthropic does a good job of nailing it down to two definitions, one of which is very commonly referred to as agents but more appropriately called _workflows_, and this is the vast majority of what you'll see in the wild. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-age...