MCP (Model Context Protocol)

AI Agent

An AI agent is an autonomous software system that perceives its environment, reasons, and takes actions to achieve a goal — often using an LLM as its brain and tools (APIs, search, code) to act.

Autonomous Agent

An AI system that plans and executes a series of actions to reach a goal with little human input.

API

An interface that lets an application call a service's functions — including an AI model — via HTTP requests.

AI Workflow

A structured sequence of steps where one or more AIs perform tasks inside a business process.

LLM (Large Language Model)

An LLM is a large language model trained on massive text corpora, capable of understanding and generating natural language across many tasks: writing, summarization, translation, code, reasoning.