AI agent platform
A managed service or framework for building, deploying, and running autonomous agents—handles orchestration, memory, tools, and monitoring.
Think of it like
A PaaS for agents—you define the agent, the platform runs it at scale.
Example
Anthropic's Agents API (coming), cloud platforms like Replit Agent. Upload your agent logic, plug in tools, invoke it; platform handles load, scaling, observability.
How it actually works
Agent platforms abstract away infrastructure and state management. They handle long-running tasks, retries, parallel tool calls, and cost tracking. Emerging category; lines blur with frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen) and LLM providers (Anthropic, OpenAI).
For product teams
Reduces time-to-deployment for agentic features; enables scaling without ops overhead.
For engineers
Managed infrastructure; agent persistence; built-in monitoring.
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