The three components of an AI Agent are:

  1. Brain (LLM – Chatgpt, Claude, Deepseek): Handles reasoning, plans, and generates responses to queries.
  2. Memory: agent remembers past interactions to craft an accurate response to a request
  3. Tools: :
    1. Retrieve data: scrape the web for information
    2. Trigger action: send email, update database, send notification
    3. orchestrate: trigger workflows, call other agents, chain workflows

Tools include: Gmail, Slack, any service with an API that the AI Agent can connect to and interact with.