AI Agent: Autonomous Agents, Agents That Can Do Anything You Want
4 min read · By Aston Kennedy
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The $70 million ai.com sale was sold on the idea of a personal agent. Shop.com was reported at $90 million and Tokens.com at $5 million.
An autonomous agent is software that takes a goal, breaks it into steps and carries them out through tools: search, email, calendars, spreadsheets, payment links. "Anything you want" is a promise with limits. In practice it means anything you can describe clearly and safely allow it to do.
On the platform, agents are put together in the agent factory and priced on the agent plans page. Finished agents can be listed in the AI Agents Directory, so other people can find them.
The .kred extension is built around reputation, which fits an agent. You trust it to act for you, so its track record matters. The spelled-out sibling is ArtificialIntelligence.kred.
AI Agent security
An agent with access to your inbox and bank is an attack surface. Give each one the smallest set of permissions it needs, require approval before money moves or messages go to new contacts, and keep a log you can read. If an agent starts acting oddly, revoke its keys first and investigate second.
The AI Security Centre sets out the platform's agent permission model and how to report a problem.
