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Why MCP rather than a custom API?
Any MCP-compatible assistant can plug in without bespoke integration, drastically cutting interoperability cost.
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Autonomous Agent
An AI system that plans and executes a series of actions to reach a goal with little human input.
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.
API
An interface that lets an application call a service's functions — including an AI model — via HTTP requests.
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.
AI Workflow
A structured sequence of steps where one or more AIs perform tasks inside a business process.
Last updated: 7/15/2026