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Which two components commonly appear in an AI agent workflow?

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Which two components commonly appear in an AI agent workflow?

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Which two components commonly appear in an AI agent workflow?

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Real-World Sample Answer

['A language model for reasoning', 'Tools or actions for interacting with external systems', 'A requirement to avoid all external data', 'A rule that every task must use the same fixed answer']

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