What is an AI Agent?
An AI agent is an autonomous software entity that can perceive its environment, reason about what it observes, and take actions to achieve specific goals—often using artificial intelligence techniques.
Key Characteristics
- Autonomy: Operates independently, making decisions without constant human intervention.
- Perception: Gathers information from its environment (e.g., via APIs, sensors, or user input).
- Reasoning: Processes information, plans, and makes decisions based on goals and context.
- Action: Executes tasks, commands, or workflows to achieve its objectives.
- Learning (optional): Some agents can adapt and improve over time
What is Saiki?
Saiki is a framework to help you build customizable, flexible AI Agents.
Saiki AI agents can:
- Understand natural language instructions from users
- Select and orchestrate the right tools, apps, or services to fulfill those instructions
- Automate complex workflows by chaining together multiple actions
Example:
"Summarize my latest emails and send the highlights to Slack."
A Saiki AI agent will:
- Parse your request
- Connect to your email and Slack services
- Summarize the emails
- Send the summary to Slack—all automatically
Why AI Agents Matter
AI agents make it possible to automate tasks that would otherwise require manual effort or custom scripting. They are the foundation for building intelligent, user-friendly experiences. We think that we are going to be seeing a lot more AI Agents in the coming years!