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Executor Agent

Reviewed 9 April 2026 Canonical definition

An executor agent is an AI agent that carries out specific, bounded actions assigned to it by an orchestrator or human operator. Unlike orchestrators, executors focus on a single task — calling an API, writing a file, querying a database — and typically operate with the minimum permissions needed for that action. Keeping executors narrowly scoped limits the blast radius of any compromise.