Defining AI Agents: A Compendium of Criteria, Metrics, and Benchmarks
arXiv:2609.11018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The term agent in artificial intelligence lacks a standard definition, complicating the evaluation, comparison, and reproducibility of AI agent research. We address this ambiguity through a survey organized around five dimensions of agenticness: environmental interaction
Builders evaluating Defining AI Agents should verify the source before changing a production default. For agent builders, this marks where planning, memory, or long-horizon behavior still breaks.