What is an agent?
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Agents are scheduled workflows that orchestrate the SLM, your connectors, and Avery's runtime to complete tasks autonomously.
An agent is a directed graph of nodes: a trigger (manual, schedule, webhook, or email-arrival), one or more capability nodes (read email, query a CRM, post to Slack, call any HTTP API), and LLM nodes (summarize, classify, extract typed fields from text or from a file). Avery's local SLM drives the planner; the wizard turns a one-paragraph description into the graph. The runtime is replayable — every run records every node's input + output to a per-agent ledger, so debugging a failed run is reading the trace, not guessing.
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