Mind Over Matter: How a BDI Ontology Gives AI Agents an Actual Inner Life
Workflow agents are easy to admire until someone asks a rude but necessary question: why did the agent do that? Not “what prompt did we send?” Not “which tool did it call?” Not “can we replay the logs and hope the compliance team loses interest?” The real question is sharper: what did the agent believe, what did it want, what did it commit to doing, which plan did that commitment specify, and what evidence justified the transition from one step to the next? ...