Reference
Agents Glossary
Every part of Agents from First Principles ends with a glossary that defines the terms it introduced. This page collects them in one place. Pick a part below and you land directly on its glossary, so you can look up a definition without re-reading the prose.
- Part 1: The Augmented LLM Glossary
- Part 2: When Tools Fail Glossary
- Part 3: Planning the Work Glossary
- Part 4: Surviving a Broken Plan Glossary
- Part 5: Learning from Failure Glossary
- Part 6: The Four Memories Glossary
- Part 7: Surviving the Long Haul Glossary
- Part 8: Stopping the Runaway Glossary
- Part 9: The Durable Agent Glossary
- Part 10: Pause, Approve, Resume, Steer Glossary
- Part 11: Shipping It Glossary
- Part 12: Tools as a Protocol Glossary
- Part 13: The Code-Running Tool Glossary
- Part 14: The Supervisor and the Handoff Glossary
- Part 15: Agent to Agent Glossary
- Part 16: Securing the Agent Glossary
- Part 17: Grading the Agent Glossary