Reasoning Agent
Noun · AI & Machine Learning
Definitions
An agentic AI component focused on planning, decomposing problems, or carrying out reasoning-heavy tasks, often with access to tools or memory. Reasoning agents are used when one-step generation is not sufficient for the workflow.
In plain English: An AI agent built to handle reasoning and multi-step problem solving.
Example: "The system used a reasoning agent to plan the investigation steps before querying logs and summarizing the findings."
Related Terms
- AI Skill
- Generalist Agent
- Implicit Reasoning
- Large Action Model
- Large Behavior Model
- Mental Model AI
- Multi-Agent
- Multi-Agent Framework
- Multi-Step Reasoning
- Reasoning Benchmark
- Reasoning Step
- Reasoning Token
- Reasoning Trace
- Scaffold AI
- Self-Consistency
- Self-Correction
- Self-Reflection
- Situational Awareness
- Thinking Token
- Tool Agent
- Uncertainty
- Web Agent
- Working Memory AI