From reflex to autonomy. Most teams stop at "rule-based". SPM clients usually need the top three layers wired in.
Owns goals end-to-end. Spawns sub-agents, reflects on results, recovers from failure.
Specialist agents coordinated by an orchestrator. Build, review, security, deploy.
Builds a multi-step plan, executes tools in sequence, checks each result.
If-this-then-that with an LLM in the middle. Most "AI" products live here.
One prompt, one response. No state, no plan, no tools — a chatbot.