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+# Component Agents
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+This guide explains the component-based architecture of AutoGPT agents. It's a new way of building agents that is more flexible and easier to extend. Components replace some agent's logic and plugins with a more modular and composable system.
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+Agent is composed of *components*, and each *component* implements a range of *protocols* (interfaces), each one providing a specific functionality, e.g. additional commands or messages. Each *protocol* is handled in a specific order, defined by the agent. This allows for a clear separation of concerns and a more modular design.
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+This system is simple, flexible, requires basically no configuration, and doesn't hide any data - anything can still be passed or accessed directly from or between components.
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+### Definitions & Guides
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+See [Creating Components](./creating-components.md) to get started! Or you can explore the following topics in detail:
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+- [🧩 Component](./components.md): a class that implements one or more *protocols*. It can be added to an agent to provide additional functionality. See what's already provided in [Built-in Components](./built-in-components.md).
+- [⚙️ Protocol](./protocols.md): an interface that defines a set of methods that a component must implement. Protocols are used to group related functionality.
+- [🛠️ Command](./commands.md): enable *agent* to interact with user and tools.
+- [🤖 Agent](./agents.md): a class that is composed of components. It's responsible for executing pipelines and managing the components.
+- **Pipeline**: a sequence of method calls on components. Pipelines are used to execute a series of actions in a specific order. As of now there's no formal class for a pipeline, it's just a sequence of method calls on components. There are two default pipelines implemented in the default agent: `propose_action` and `execute`. See [🤖 Agent](./agents.md) to learn more.