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AgenC Framework – Whitepaper

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1. Introduction

The AgenC AI Agent Framework in C is designed to handle perception, cognition, planning, and action execution. The framework supports single and multi-agent configurations, through communication and synchronization interfaces.


What is an AI Agent Framework

An AI Agent Framework is a structure for autonomous decision-making in AI systems, similar to how a human brain's nervous system coordinates sensing, thinking, and acting.

By implementing the framework in C we get speed and compatibility across multiple hardware platforms.


Framework Components

The AI Agent Framework needs these core components.

  • Perception Systems: These handle all input - sensors, data feeds, user input, anything the AI needs to understand its environment. They clean and structure the raw data into something useful.

  • Cognitive System: This is the "brain" that processes information and makes decisions. It manages different AI models working together (like LLMs and neural networks), stores memories of past experiences, and plans actions.

  • Action System: Takes decisions and turns them into real actions. It manages timing, prioritizes tasks, and monitors results.

  • Resource Manager: Controls system resources like memory and processing power, making sure everything runs efficiently.

  • Communication System: Handles how all parts talk to each other and how the framework communicates with the outside world.

These components are tied together! The key is building them in a way that's fast. This is why C is ideal.


Core Functions

  • Data Input: Collects and standardizes data from sources such as sensors, databases, or user input.

  • Decision Coordination: Orchestrates AI components (e.g., language models, neural networks) to generate decisions and learn from outcomes.

  • Action Execution: Manages resource allocation, prioritizes tasks, and processes feedback to refine system performance.

  • Significance: A ready-made framework eliminates the need to build basic infrastructure repeatedly, allowing developers to focus on creating specific AI capabilities and behaviors.


Practical Applications

  • Factory robotics that adapt and improve assembly tasks

  • Self-driving systems that make split-second navigation decisions

  • Trading platforms that analyze markets and execute automated trades

  • Virtual assistants that interpret user needs and perform relevant actions

This type of framework is used for building advanced AI capable of learning, adapting, and interacting with real-world environments.


2. High-Level Architecture

The system is divided into key modules, each addressing specific concerns:

  1. Agent Core Manages agent lifecycle, configuration, and overall health. Houses the Agent Manager, Command Dispatcher, System Diagnostics, Health Monitor, and Configuration Optimizer.
  2. Infrastructure Provides logging, metrics collection, debugging facilities, testing frameworks, and deployment management.
  3. Security Secures the input pipeline and system interactions via input validation, authentication, access control, encryption, and auditing.
  4. Perception Collects and processes raw input from sensors. Normalizes data, detects events, and routes validated information to the next processing steps.
  5. Memory Stores data and maintains caches, query processing, and context. Prunes obsolete information while accumulating new experiences.
  6. Knowledge Manages ontologies, the knowledge graph, and supports information retrieval and conceptual linking for informed decision-making.
  7. Cognitive Handles inference, decision-making, learning, and performance evaluation. Manages the belief system and model-related tasks.
  8. Planning Schedules tasks, generates plans, evaluates strategies, and manages goals. Receives feedback for continuous plan refinement.
  9. Action Executes planned tasks, validates actions, monitors results, and can roll back or reprioritize as needed.
  10. Resource Management Monitors and balances resource usage, manages performance, and recovers from failures.
  11. Communication Synchronizes states and events among internal and external components. Routes messages, handles protocols, and manages errors.
  12. Multi-Agent Discovers other agents, provides collaboration protocols, shares resources, resolves conflicts, and negotiates to reach collective goals.
  13. Training Coordinates training processes, modifies behavior, tracks performance metrics, and manages adaptation and model versioning.

3. UML Diagram Overview

UML The UML diagram outlines each module’s components. The diagram illustrates:

  • Inheritance and Aggregation: Each main subsystem groups related components.
  • Inter-module Dependencies: Arrows indicate where a subsystem depends on or directly interacts with another (e.g., Perception depends on Memory and Knowledge).

4. Sequence Diagram Summary

Sequence Diagram The Sequence Diagram traces a typical execution flow:

  1. Initialization: Infrastructure and Security components start up and validate the system.
  2. Input Processing: Perception normalizes validated inputs and stores relevant data in Memory.
  3. Cognitive Processing: Cognitive requests contextual data from Knowledge and Memory, then prepares a decision.
  4. Planning & Execution: Planning checks resources and coordinates with Multi-Agent systems if necessary, then delegates tasks to Action.
  5. Resource Allocation & Communication: Action uses Resource Management to allocate resources and sends progress updates via Communication.
  6. Training & Memory Updates: Results feed back into Training and Memory, keeping the system’s models and stored data updated.

5. State Diagram Summary

sate The State Diagram describes system states from startup to shutdown:

  • SystemInitialization and SecurityCheck: The system transitions to Ready if security checks pass; otherwise it enters an Error state.
  • InputProcessing and CognitiveProcessing: Valid inputs transition the system into advanced phases of knowledge query and planning.
  • Planning, ResourceCheck, MultiAgentCoordination, Execution: These states determine resource availability, multi-agent interactions, and task execution.
  • Training & MemoryUpdate: The system refines its knowledge and memory based on execution outcomes, looping back to Ready.
  • Error Handling: Errors engage System Diagnostics followed by AutoRecoverySystem, returning the system to Ready if successful.

6. Swimlane Diagram Summary

Swimlane The Swimlane Diagram organizes components under distinct subsystems (e.g., AgentCore, Security, Perception, Memory, etc.). It shows:

  • Security (Input Validator) acting before Perception receives data.
  • Cognitive invoking Knowledge and Memory queries.
  • Planning leveraging ResourceManagement and coordinating with MultiAgent.
  • Action interacting with Communication and reporting to Training.
  • Infrastructure providing logging and diagnostics capabilities throughout.
  • Dotted Lines indicate cross-cutting concerns (e.g., authentication, logging) that are accessed by every component.

7. Implementation Considerations

Language and Efficiency

  • C offers control over memory and execution flow, it is high-performance and cross platform.
  • Modularity and clear function boundaries help maintain code clarity.

Concurrency and Resource Management

  • Threading or event-driven models can be employed, with ResourceManagement for efficient load balancing and recovery from failures.

Security and Reliability

  • Input validation and access control guard against unauthorized data or operations.
  • Monitoring and diagnostics for detection of anomalies.

Extendibility

  • The architecture supports adding new modules or replacing sub-components (e.g., switching out a knowledge graph implementation without broad changes elsewhere).

8. Conclusion

The AI Agent Framework in C integrates perception, memory, knowledge, cognition, planning, action, multi-agent collaboration, and training. By structuring these subsystems as discrete modules, we get performance, maintainability, and scalability. The provided diagrams align component interactions, giving a high level view of how data flows through the system.


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