Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are systems that understand their environment, reason, plan, and take actions using large language models (LLMs) with minimal human interaction. Today, we have agents that read your calendar, inbox, and event write and execute code. As part of this tutorial, we will explore the different constructs that make up an AI agent and learn how to build one using the Docker cagent.

Unlike traditional software, which executes predefined logic, an AI agent can autonomously drive toward a goal with minimal human interaction. And at a very high level, every AI agent consists of seven core components.