Agent
A skill with autonomy. Agents run on schedules or triggers, execute multi-step workflows, and produce output without human initiation.
Agents are the third layer of Knowledge OS. Where skills require a human to invoke them, agents run autonomously via scheduled triggers (Pipedream, remote triggers) or event-driven activation (calendar events, CRM updates). The newsletter pipeline agent runs 3x/week, the social content agent runs daily, and the weekly repo audit runs Sunday nights. Agents use the same skills as human operators but orchestrate them into multi-step workflows. The key constraint: agents that touch more than 10 files per operation fail reliably.
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