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30 Must-Know Agentic AI Terms (Glossary)
A comprehensive glossary of the 30 essential terms for understanding modern AI agents — covering the core reasoning loop, memory, coordination, and emerging protocols.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Define all 30 core agentic AI terms in your own words
- •Use the correct term when discussing agent architecture with other engineers
- •Map each term to the broader concept it belongs to (reasoning loop, memory, coordination, or protocols)
- •Recognize these terms when reading agent framework documentation (CrewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen)
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Core Agent Concepts: Agent, Environment, Action, Observation, Goal, LLMs, Tools
Memory and Context Terms: Context Window, System Prompt, Short/Long-Term Memory, Knowledge Base, Context Engineering
Planning, Reasoning and Quality Control Terms
Multi-Agent and Protocol Terms: Orchestration, Hierarchical Agents, Router, MCP, A2A