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Understand the names you will hear when teams build agentic systems.
Role
A role defines what an agent is responsible for or how it should behave in a team.
Think of it like
Think of Role as infrastructure glue: it does not replace the model, but helps applications connect pieces in a repeatable way.
Real life
Software frameworks such as Role package common patterns so teams do not rebuild everything from scratch.
SRE lens
“Database investigator” is a role.
Remember thisA role defines what an agent is responsible for or how it should behave in a team.