AI engineering glossary · Agents tools MCP
What is generative agents?
Generative agents: A research setup in which simulated characters, each driven by a language model with memory, reflection and planning, live in a virtual town and show believable daily behaviour. It is widely cited as a design for agent memory that combines recency, importance and relevance.
Generative agents: an example
In the simulation, an agent decides to throw a party, tells others, and remembers who accepted the invitation.
Related terms
More Agents tools MCP terms
- Grounding (agents)
- Guardrails for agents
- Human-in-the-loop
- Human-on-the-loop
- Idempotency (tool calls)
- Indirect prompt injection
- Interrupt (agent)
- JSON-RPC
Where you learn it
Generative agents is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.