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title: "Comment by Jailson Shankle on \"Understanding AI Agents: An Overview\" | Hashnode"
description: "Great overview of a complex topic. I recently built a simple agent to automate API health checks, and your breakdown of perception, reasoning, and action perfec"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/understanding-ai-agents-an-overview/67d8d3b945ed60b509abbb57)

Comment [Understanding AI Agents: An Overview](https://hashnode.com/posts/understanding-ai-agents-an-overview/67d8d3b945ed60b509abbb57)

[Jailson Shankle](https://hashnode.com/@shankle)

[Apr 8](https://hashnode.com/posts/understanding-ai-agents-an-overview/67d8d3b945ed60b509abbb57/comment/69d6879b0acfd03d8baeeed8)

Great overview of a complex topic. I recently built a simple agent to automate API health checks, and your breakdown of perception, reasoning, and action perfectly maps to the architecture I ended up with. It's a powerful paradigm shift from single-task scripts.