Amazon Quick’s Taxonomy Defines Four Primitives for Agentic Work
Taxonomy of agentic primitives in Amazon Quick
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- AWS
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- describes a taxonomy of agentic primitives for Amazon Quick
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This post shares the taxonomy we converged on: one set of primitives found by decomposing agentic work into four plain questions: When?
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AWS authors describe a taxonomy for agentic work in Amazon Quick, organized around four questions: when work starts, what it should do, who performs it, and how it is done. The framework distinguishes triggers, persistent agents, and capabilities such as tools, skills, and deterministic workflows. The authors use a scheduled Slack digest to show how the same task can be handled with different levels of agent discretion.
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AWS has described a taxonomy of agentic work in Amazon Quick, organized around four questions: when work starts, what it should do, who performs it, and how it is done. The framework distinguishes triggers, persistent agents, and capabilities such as tools, skills, and deterministic workflows. AWS authors use a scheduled Slack digest to illustrate how the same task can be handled with different levels of agent discretion.
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