Taxonomy of agentic primitives in Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick's team describes a taxonomy of agentic primitives derived from four questions—When, What, Who, and How—covering triggers (human-initiated, agent-delegated, scheduled, event-driven), agents as persistent learning actors with instructions, capabilities, and learned context, and capabilities spanning tools, skills, and workflows. The post argues skills and workflows retain value independent of model improvements, with skills able to crystallize into workflows and workflows dissolve back into skills, and notes a request like monitoring Slack for a daily digest is usually a trigger added to an existing agent. It is the first post in a series, with upcoming posts on the agentic operating system, background learning, and proactive feeds.