Which agent fits a user asking a quick question in chat?
Why A is the answer
A prompt and response agent
Prompt and response agents answer when a person asks.
In detail
- A prompt and response agent suits a quick chat question.
- No background process is needed.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
An employee asks an agent about holiday rules in chat, and it answers at once.
See it in different ways
flowchart TD
A{"What starts it?"} -->|"A user asks"| B["Prompt and response agent"]
A -->|"Assigned work"| C["Task agent"]
A -->|"An event, with no user present"| D["Autonomous agent"]mindmap
root((Agent types))
Prompt and response
User asks in chat
Task
User starts it
Autonomous
Event starts it
No user present
Multi-agent
SpecialistssequenceDiagram participant P0 as User participant P1 as Agent P0->>P1: Question P1-->>P0: Answer
Key point: Prompt and response agents wait to be asked.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. An autonomous agent with no user
- An autonomous agent is for work with no user.
- C. A scheduled batch process
- A batch process does not answer in chat.
- D. A background data pipeline
- A pipeline does not answer in chat.