AI & models
Agentic AI
Agentic workflows
Agentic AI is an AI that works out the steps itself toward a goal — making a plan, taking actions with tools, checking the result, and adjusting — instead of doing the single thing you spelled out. A plain chat reply answers your one question and stops; an agentic system keeps going until the job is actually done, looping through act-and-check on its own. Claude Code is agentic: you give it a goal, and it reads files, runs commands, and fixes its own mistakes along the way.
Why it matters
Part of What an AI agent is → It's the difference between an assistant that drafts a reply and one that can carry out a multi-step task — knowing which you're using tells you how much to supervise.