Autonomous Agent
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Practical example
An autonomous agent plans and executes multi-step tasks without human intervention. Example: "Book me a flight to NYC next Tuesday under $300." The agent searches flights, compares, selects, and books — all autonomously. The operational risk: autonomy × mistakes = expensive errors. A misbooked $2,000 flight is on you.
Workflow example
Deploy autonomous agents with guardrails: (1) classify tasks by risk level — low-risk (search, summarize) can be fully autonomous, (2) high-risk (purchases, code deploys) require human confirmation before execution, (3) implement a spending limit per agent session, (4) log every action + reasoning trace for audit, (5) test agents in a sandbox environment with fake APIs before connecting to real systems. Monitor autonomous_action_count and human_escalation_rate.