Vibhor Kumar: The AI Agent Layer: Architecture, Implementation, and the Future of Intelligent Enterprise Systems (opens in new tab)

Part 2: Planning, Tool Use, and Reflection Key takeaways Memory gives an agent continuity. It does not give it judgment. Planning, tool use, and reflection are the three capabilities that turn a well-informed model into a system that can act on a real business process. Treat the execution plan as an artifact, not a transcript. If you can’t persist it, version it, and pause it for human approval, it isn’t a plan — it’s improvisation with extra steps. A tool named ‘run a database query’ is not ...